SOTOlore
This band advisor and carillon player was also a drum major for the band in his undergraduate years.
Dr. Anthony Tang
The Wake Forest football stadium recently rebranded to use this name.
Allegacy Financial Stadium
This is the year that Wake Forest University was founded, as well as the street address of ZSR.
1834
This alumnus is, depending on who you ask, a legendary professional golfer (racking up 62 wins on the PGA tour), or a refreshing beverage made of iced tea and lemonade.
Arnold Palmer
This tune is played on interceptions, fumbles, and other offensive blunders the other team might make (I’m trying really hard not to just say the title).
Turnover
This is Dr. Heath's middle name.
Allen
This Wake Forest Football coach holds the school record for best record as a first-year head coach with 9 wins and 4 losses, also securing just the fourth 9-win season.
Jake Dickert
Wake Forest University moved from the town of Wake Forest to Winston-Salem in this year.
1956
This legendary American poet and writer of such books as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was also a distinguished professor at Wake Forest for over 30 years. In fact, some of you might be living in the dorm named after her.
Maya Angelou
This entrance to the football stadium has lent its name to a classic SOTOGAB drum cadence.
East Gate
SOTOGAB used to meet in this building before every home football and basketball game, until it became a casualty of the Grounds.
PFS
This football player and former Deacon received an NFL All-Pro nomination in 2025, making him the most recent program graduate to do so.
Jessie Bates (III)
The end of the 2026 marching band season will mark this many seasons of SOTOGAB.
99
This musically-named running back for the Chicago Bears is also the namesake of WFU’s cancer research fund after he tragically passed away from it at the age of 26. Plus, he put up incredible stats to boot.
Brian Piccolo
Our band plays this many songs containing "Deacs" or "Deacon" in the name.
6: deacon defense, deacon fanfare, demon deacon joy, hail demon deacons, lets go deacs (bomp bomp bomp), how bout them deacs
This section olympics skit from before our time is widely credited for revolutionizing section olympics.
Redneck Wedding
This Big 10 school has played the Demon Deacon football team 62 times, more than any other school not currently in the ACC.
Maryland
Including the current year, Deacon Drum Beat has been performed in pregame for this many years.
55
This recent WFU grad won the MLB's American League Rookie of the Year Award in 2025, and received his first all-star nomination in 2026.
Nick Kurtz
This stand tune, still played to this day, was first performed by SOTOGAB in a joint performance with Vanderbilt’s marching band.
Confident
The Marching Band originated from this group on campus.
Glee Club
Wake Forest athletic teams were known as the Wake Forest College this before being nicknamed the Demon Deacons by Duke (Then Trinity College).
Tigers (Also accept Baptists)
The Wake Forest Marching Band began using the name SOTOGAB in this year.
2007
This basketball player is the most recent first-round pick out of Wake Forest who played in Memphis and Sacramento before joining the Lakers, where he went semi-viral in a clip where a fan asks "Who is number 12?"
Jake Laravia
The current version of O Here’s to Wake Forest was arranged, in part, by this former Director of Bands. They're also well known for doing the YMCA.
Barbara Trautwein / Mrs. T