Laura Chen is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Spartan Shield. Outside of journalism, she enjoys her AP 3D Art and sociology classes. At PV, Laura is the co-presiden...

Prerna Vanga is a senior and is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Spartan Shield. This is her third and final year working for the Shield; Prerna has worked as Assistant Editor-in-Chief and seasonal editor for the pri...

Estelle Treiber is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is currently serving as the online edition News Editor, and the Design Editor for the print edition of the Shield. At PV, Estelle is a member of the Chamber Choir, ...

Shaha Bhugra is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently assists the Spartan Shield as the News Editor. Post-high school, Shaha plans to double major in pure mathematics and physics at **REDACTED**, with the hopes...

Swetha Narmeta is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Feature Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, Swetha loves to attend Ceramic Club meetings, play in the Spartan Band, and is a president of Amnesty C...

Sydney Smith is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Feature Editor. At PV, Sydney is a Drum Major for the Spartan Marching Band and is an active member of Chamber Choir, Leading Tones Jazz Choir, and Women in ...

Ishika Desai is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and she serves as the opinion editor for the Spartan Shield. Aside from Honors Journalism, her favorite classes are AP Precalculus and AP Lang. She is also involved in K...

Mau Sanchez Carmona is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Sports Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, he is a member of the Spartan band, ethics bowl team, and Spartan Assembly. Outside of school,...

Ian Benge is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Sports Editor for the Spartan Shield. Ian is very involved in the school’s bands where he plays percussion for marching band, concert band, an...

Grace Ludwig is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Arts and Entertainment Editor for Pleasant Valley’s Spartan Shield. Outside of working on the Spartan Shield Grace serves as the Co-Editor-i...

Ava Sauser is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Student Life Editor. She is active in the school’s bands and plays the alto saxophone in concert band, marching band, and jazz band. Additionally, Ava is...

Clare is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is serving as the Student Life Section Editor. At PV, Clare is the captain of the varsity dance team, and she is a member of Chamber Choir and Wind Symphony. She loves perfor...

Grace Schmidt is a senior  at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Business Manager for Pleasant Valley’s Spartan Shield. This will be Grace’s second year as a staff member of the Spartan Shield. As of th...

Katie Haas is a Senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield. Katie participates in the school’s Wind Symphony, Girl’s Soccer Team, Social Committee and is president of Environmental...

Reid Yoder is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and a Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield. Reid is interested in biology and biochemistry and strives to be a pathologist. He’s a four year member of the Boy’s Swim Team...

Sunayana Khadka is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a Photo Manager for the Spartan Shields. She enjoys taking classes like AP 3-D Art, Photography, Psychology and Principles Biomedical Science. Sunayana en...

Rithik Vijaykumar is a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the photo manager for the Spartan Shield. Rithik’s favorite classes are physics and anatomy. Rithik has an interest in medicine and hopes to pursue a career in hea...

Bennett Teitle is a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as a Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield. He is passionate about all things aviation and hopes to pursue aeronautical engineering in the future. Bennett is involved in ...

Becca Hahm is  a senior and a high school photographer mainly focusing on sports. She plan sto continue to take photos for any and all sporting events. Becca also participates in track, band, and dance outside of school. Becca...

Clark Lechtenberg is a Pleasant Valley High School senior who works for the Spartan Shield as the Multimedia Manager. After this year, Clark plans on going to the University of Northern Iowa and studying history education. While...

Riley Rashka is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School serving as the multimedia manager for the Spartan Shield. He participates in marching, concert, and jazz band, along with being on the tennis team. He plans to double major ...

Grace Boleyn is a senior and is currently the PV Only Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, she does track as well as cross country. She plans to continue running in college at the University of Iowa while studying mechanical...

Vee Donart is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the PV Only Editor for the Spartan Shield. Vee is quite active in both band and orchestra and is the principal clarinetist of the Quad City Youth Symphony Or...

Hannah Horsfield is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is a Social Media Manager for the Spartan Shield. Throughout her high school career Hannah has participated in Cheerleading, Track and Field, Sparkles, and Love y...

Amelia Noguera is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. She enjoys music, ceramics and hanging out with friends. At school, she is involved in band, jazz band, sports, and...

Raina Mishra is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. Raina’s favorite classes are Anatomy and French. She wants to pursue biochemistry at University of Iowa and then have a career...

Sean Murphy is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. Sean hopes to pursue a career in anything aviation related. Sean Moved from Rockford, Ill into the Pleasant Valley Commun...

Brian Chen is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, his favorite classes include Physics and Anatomy & Physiology. After high school, Brian plans on stu...

Ashley Eddingfield is currently a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. Enrolled as a senior at Pleasant Valley High School, Ashley plans to attend the University of Virginia after graduating early. As an academically motivated st...

Tejas Gokhale is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Copy Editor of the online Spartan Shield. Tejas is passionate about table tennis and intends to form a table tennis club at PV. Outside of school, Tejas...

Mackenzie Fah is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. Mackenzie is a part of the track and field and softball teams for the high school. Mackenzie’s future plans include...

Rithwick Lakshmanan is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Spartan Sheild's Site Manager. Rithwick wants to pursue Mechanical Engineering in College and hopes to start his own robotics company in the fut...

Abhinav Anthati is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Site Manager for the Spartan Shield. Abhinav hopes to pursue Computer Science in college, and he enjoys taking classes like Calculus III due to his ...

Emily Thoreson is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and she is currently serving as the Business Manager for the online and print Spartan Shield. This is Emily’s second year on the Spartan Shield Staff.  At PV, Emily is...

Sabrina Richards is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Arts & Entertainment Editor. As well as Journalism, she enjoys her anatomy and music classes. At PV, Sabrina loves participating in Leading...