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Vinay Joshi, Business Manager
Vinay Joshi is a Senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the business manager for the Spartan Shield. A dedicated musician, you may recognize him on the snare drum leading the Spartan Marching Band during football games. He was selected as the 1st Alternate Percussionist for Iowa’s Allstate band, and plays viola in the Quad City Youth Symphony. Vinay is also the president of the PV Economics Club which made it to the finals of the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition last school year. Outside of school, Vinay spends time running a small business specializing in providing investing guidance for digital commodities to paid subscribers. He is the business manager and a programmer for the Winter Soldiers, a robotics team that placed 1st in Iowa’s state FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) competition last year. He spends his free time programming pet projects in Java, adding to his sneaker collection, and traveling the world with his family. Vinay has an older brother, Vivek, who is a senior at Emory University majoring in Political Science on a Pre-Med track. Vinay plans to attend an undecided four-year-university, majoring in computer science and economics so he can contribute to the world positively through technology in the future.
Mitchell Wood, Sports Editor
Mitchell Wood is a senior in Pleasant Valley High School and the Sports Editor of the Spartan Shield Online. As his fourth year playing golf and being a three-year varsity starter, he’s currently one of the captains of the PV Golf team. Mitchell’s favorite class right now is Journalism and hopes to go to University of Iowa to study cinema and writing. While not at school or golfing, Mitchell loves skiing, fly-fishing, gaming, watching movies and watching all sports. He has an older brother who graduated at PV in the class of 2020 and a younger sister in eighth grade.