The National High School Drill Team Championships began in 1982 by Bill Squires, a Drill Team Instructor of Fort Knox High School in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He traveled to Florida to observe quality of other athletic competition, from Sports Network International (SNI). The first competition was then held in Orlando, Florida, in 1983 with invited teams. Over the early years, it was then spread about the Nationals to the teams across the United States. As the number of team members increased, the competition got expanded even bigger, and more expert teams in the United States worked hard, in order to participate in the Nationals.
