Carissa Wolfe is excited for her first year with the Hawkeye Marching Band! She is from Uniontown, Ohio and has been twirling since she was 4 years old. Carissa competed individually and with her team The Showtwirlers on the international scale, earning three Gold Medals at the 2023 IBTF world championships. She was the first athlete from the US to ever win three gold medals at one technical world championship. She continues to represent the United States on the world stage in solo, x-strut, artistic twirl, and artistic pair. Carissa was the feature twirler at Lake High School for four years, and she is the 2024 USTA Grand National Artistic Twirl Champion. She has accumulated 10 national titles in strut and artistic twirl in the past three years at USTA. Carissa is very proud to represent the USA on the International Baton Twirling Federation Athletes Commission where she serves as a voice for all US athletes. 

Carissa is an incoming first-year student at the University of Iowa, majoring in human physiology with a minor in therapeutic recreation on a pre-physician’s assistant track.

Current + Former Hawkeye Marching Band Golden Girls,
Feature Twirlers, and Baton Twirlers

2021-Present  Ella McDaniel
2017-2021  Kylene Spanbauer
2012-16 Whittney Seckar-Anderson
2007-11  Chelsea Russell
2002-06  Diana Reed
1997-01  Julie Canterbury
1992-96  Tanya Pennock
1989-91  Gayl Anderson
1987-88  Jayna Sanchez, Gayl Anderson (Iowa Girl)
1986  Jayna Sanchez
1985-86 Nikki Meredith
1983-84 Amy Baumel
1982-85  Laurie Broderick
1980-81  Linda Simon
1979  Marcy Goodwich-Volker, Mary Goodrich, Katie Baumel
1977-79  Jane Stemmerman
1973-76  Nancy Shaw
1970-72  Lani Jo Gill Flesch
1968-69  Mary Moffitt Foraker, Lani Jo Gill Flesch
1967-68  Mary Lynn Harvey
1966-67  Mary Moffitt Foraker
1963-65  Bobbie Jean Foulkes
1960-61  Ann-Nita Ekstrom McDonald
1960 Jerilyn Oliver
1959  Ann-Nita Ekstrom McDonald, Margaret Rossi
1958  Ann-Nita Ekstrom McDonald, Lavonne Nolte
1955-57  Lavonne Nolte​
1954  Laura Ellen Moody
1945 Mary DuMont, Catherine Yerkes
1943 Mary DuMont

(HMB alums: e-mail Eric Bush with the names of former HMB Golden Girls/Baton Twirlers so we can expand this list!)

From 1972 - Tom Leslie, Lani Jo Gill Flesch, and Steve Murphy