(WHTM) – Penn State football fans will witness history when the Penn State Blue Band takes the field on August 30. The Blue Band announced that Ellie Sheehan has been named Drum Major for the ...

It’s a year of firsts for the Penn State Blue Band, a student organization that traces its roots to 1899 — and that continued ...

The Penn State Blue Band is still making history after 125 years. Ellie Sheehan was announced as the marching band’s drum major for the 2025-26 season on Thursday, becoming the first woman to ...

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, Pa. — For the first time in its 125-year history, Penn State's Blue Band will have a female drum major, as Ellie Sheehan, a fifth-year marketing student, steps into the ...

The Penn State drum major is known for the forward flip – which is part of every pre-game show. The band’s post says in its 125-year history, no woman has held the drum major position.

Ellie Sheehan, a marketing student from Hollidaysburg, PA, becomes Penn State Blue Band's first female drum major, marking another milestone for the band.

Ellie Sheehan, the first woman to be named drum major of the Penn State Blue Band, celebrated her accomplishment Friday before a hometown crowd of friends and family as she threw out the first ...

Ellie Sheehan, a fifth-year student from Holidaysburg, is the first woman drum major in the Blue Band's 125-year history.