Staff

She has been associated with the UT Band since 1996 and handles the financial aspects of the program. In 2002, Mrs. Dooley was presented with the Volunteer Spirit Award which is given to staff members who "exemplify the Volunteer Spirit by deeds above and beyond the call of duty." A resident of Seymour, she has twin sons, Todd, an Assistant Athletics Director with the UT Lady Vols, and Tom, an employee with the Nature Conservatory in South Carolina.

Her background includes over 25 years of services in an office support capacity. She schedules auditions for incoming students, maintains data bases for alumni members and prospective students, as well as creates the layout & design of concert programs. If you ask Barbara what she likes most about her work here, she will tell you she enjoys interacting with the students at UT. Barbara is also licensed through the State of Tennessee as a Real Estate Agent and is a life long resident of the Knoxville Area. She lives in Seymour with her husband, and has two daughters and three beautiful grandchildren.

Carrie Creswell, UT's majorette coordinator, is a former "Pride of the Southland" majorette. She twirled on the line from 1997-1999, and in 2000 she served as head majorette. During her years in the band, she had the opportunity to twirl at the 1998 National Championship game in Tempe, Arizona and marched in the 2001 Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C. Carrie graduated from UT with a Bachelors degree in Speech Communication and a Masters degree in Education. Prior to being a pastor's wife and a stay-at-home mom for her son, Baylor, she was a middle school teacher for six years. Carrie began twirling at the age of four and competed in local, state, regional, and national NBTA twirling competitions until she was sixteen.  She is a former baton student of Kathy McCarrell-Smith. In high school, Carrie began teaching private lessons to majorettes of all ages and continues teaching in Seymour to young twirlers. She has choreographed and judged multiple high school lines and has been a UT Majorette Camp staff member since she graduated UT in 2000. Carrie and her husband, Bryan, live in Seymour with their son.

Jeanne Musick has been involved with colorguard since the early 1980's when she performed in Drum Corps and Winterguard.  Over the years she has taught at numerous band camps, colorguard camps, clinics and music festivals.

Ms. Musick has instructed colorguard and winterguard programs at various local high schools in the East Tennessee area and over the last five years has been the director of an award winning Independent A winterguard.