Toni Twaddell first began her experience in the pageantry arts at the age of nine, first marching in the Golden Knights out of Southgate, Kentucky and then "aging-out" as a member of the Pride of Cincinnati Drum and Bugle Corps. (How many people remember those bright yellow tuxedoes?) Although performing as a percussionist, Twaddell began her instructional career as a movement tech., teaching the Pride Drum Corps during its remaining years.

Winter Guard became Twaddell’s first love as a staff member of the very first Pride of Cincinnati Winter Guard. Since then she has continued teaching groups such as the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps, as well as a variety of marching bands and winter guards in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Mississippi.

Today, Twaddell teaches Arts and Humanities at Gray Middle School in Northern Kentucky, while teaching art classes at a local college in the evenings. In addition to her duties as a Pride board member, Twaddell continues to teach movement technique on the high school level and does freelance artwork within the pageantry arts, designing and creating specialized costumes, flags, props and floors.