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Sunny Wolfe, Copy Editor
Sunny Wolfe, 18, was born and raised here in Bettendorf Iowa. Sunny has attended the Pleasant Valley Community School District since she was in Kindergarden. While attending PVHS, Sunny has played volleyball all four years and has been apart of the National Honor Society since junior year. After graduating from PV, Sunny plans on attending Augustana College to play volleyball as a Viking and wants to study kinesiology. After her four years at Augustana, Sunny wants to continue her education at chiropractic school.
Sunny has 4 siblings and looks up to her mom tremendously. During the summers, Sunny works at Antique Archeology with her uncle, Mike Wolfe. Other than working, Sunny spends a lot of time focusing on her volleyball career. During the club season, Sunny spends a lot of her time traveling around the country and is going to Minnesota and Texas in the near future. Sunny’s other hobbies include hanging out with her Chinese Shar Pei, Cordi, watching her favorite movie, Perks of Being a Wallflower, watching Packers and Cubs games, and eating her favorite food, mashed potatoes.
Cecilia Zavala, Overflow Section Editor
Cecilia Zavala is a senior at Pleasant Valley, and a vital part in the Spartan Shield online. In addition to her duties for the Shield, Zavala is a member of the National Honor Society, and an active member of the art club. She also wants to try and start a Spanish club here at the high school. Outside of school, she enjoys playing club softball, which she has been doing since she was in 3rd grade. Zavala also enjoys playing volleyball with her friends and her favorite TV shows include Chicago Med and Chicago Fire. She loves to watch football and baseball, and her favorite teams are the Patriots and the Cardinals play. Zavala also enjoys working with kids at the Kiddie Karrasel Academy in LeClaire. Her post-secondary plans include going to Scott for a year while being dual-enrolled, and then transfer to UNI to major in speech pathology and minor in Spanish.