Southern Sayonara: A Southern Show Choir Recap (3/28/26)
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Well, that does it. The 2026 Southern Show Choir season has officially come to an end with the conclusion of Brandon ELITE. With that being said, it’s time to take one final look at what happened this last weekend and break down the results.
Brandon Show Choir ELITE
PHOTO: Northwest Rankin ends the season with a sweep at Brandon ELITE | @_the.real.angelina
The southern season came to close in the Brandon High School gymnasium, where Northwest Rankin walked away with a sweep Grand Championship and placed two groups in the overall top five. This marks two consecutive Grand Championship titles, both immediately following the announcement of their director, Toney Keeler, leaving next season for Jackson Prep. In accordance with their Biloxi performance, Jackson Academy placed second at this event over Northeast Jones, who finished in third. South Jones and Northwest Rankin The Allure rounded out the top groups in fourth and fifth, respectively.
With South Jones making the overall top five, that also meant a 2A division win over Burleson Centennial. Clinton Christian Academy won the 1A division, with Pisgah, Pass Christian, and Morton following in that respective order. Northwest Rankin’s treble group avenged their intraprogram loss from last weekend and beat their bass group (along with Cristo Rey Fort Worth) to win the single-gender division. Overall results are posted below (no finals):
1st) Northwest Rankin “The Ambassadors” (Sweep)
2nd) Jackson Academy “Encore”
3rd) Northeast Jones “Gold Horizons”
4th) South Jones “Company”
5th) Northwest Rankin “The Allure”
1st in 4A) Northwest Rankin “The Ambassadors”
Only Group in 3A) Northeast Jones “Gold Horizons”
1st in 2A) South Jones “Company”
1st in 1A) Clinton Christian Academy “Extreme”
1st in Single Gender) Northwest Rankin “The Allure”
Travelers
This weekend, Madison Central and Jackson Prep both traveled to Heart Of America Orlando, where they placed 9th and 10th in mixed division prelims. The small division was comprised of just Rosa Scott and Tarpon Springs, with the latter getting the better of the matchup.