Samantha Houston Brown

Samantha Houston Brown is looking forward to returning to the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps for the 2027 season. Samantha enjoyed performing with various marching ensembles including the Marching Jayhawks, Synchronicity Winterguard, Avidity Independent Winterguard and a summer with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, from Santa Clara, California while earning her Music Education Degree from the University of Kansas.

Samantha has experience designing, instructing and choreographing for high school and collegiate bands and color guards in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Hawaii and Nebraska. Previous DCI experience includes Visual and Color Guard staff for The Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps. She is in her eighth year as the Color Guard Instructor for the University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band.

Outside of pageantry, Samantha teaches Yoga and Barre classes and volunteers with Dancing Beyond Limits, an adaptive dance program local to Nebraska. She enjoys reading and is training for a marathon. She lives in Lincoln, NE with her husband, Zach, and their dog, Zorro.