Of all the leaders on the field during LSU game days, Catherine Mansfield is probably the least banged up at this point in the season.

“No injuries yet,” she reports. “Sometimes a little bit of a sore shoulder. But other than that, I’m on the top of my game.”

Mansfield is the LSU Tiger Marching Band’s drum major. During this turbulent, challenging LSU football season, she and the 325 instrumentalists, Golden Girls and Colorguard members she leads have done their best to fire up fans.

Along the way, she's made history. In the Tiger Band's entire 132 years, she is only its fourth female drum major.

“I feel a bit of that pressure, but a lot of it is self-imposed,” said Mansfield, 21. “People are going to watch me closer but are rooting me on more. They see that the drum major is a litt

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