Known as "The Ambassadors of the University," the University of Texas at Arlington Marching Band is one of the only college marching bands in the nation to exist without a football team, designed to serve both our music education students and non-majors for a musical, instructional and social experience.

For over 20 years, the UTA Marching Band has pioneered a new path in musical and visual excellence, striving to provide audiences with state-of-the-art presentations.

The band performs annually for crowds numbering 100,000 and is consistently featured in exhibition at state and local marching contests, professional football games, as well as Bands of America Super Regional and Grand Nationals Championships.

UTA's marching percussion section is instructed by Jim Yakas. The marching band is under the direction of Matthew Luttrell.

The story of the UTA Marching Band perseverance
     In 1985, when the Board of Regents and the Athletic Program mutually decided to no longer financially support a football program, the music department, along with the support of the university administration, decided that, for the sake of the music education program, as well as the continued exposure of the university outside Arlington, the marching band would continue to exist. This decision would make the UTA Marching Band one of the only marching bands in the country to exist at a university where there is not a football program.
     Over twenty years later, the band is alive and strong, performing every fall in front of capacity crowds, continuing to give more performances than the majority of other college bands throughout the nation.