Jae Jepsen is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is thrilled to serve as 2023-2024 Editor-in-Chief for the Spartan Shield Online! In past years, she has written for the Boston Terrier at Boston University's Summer Jour...

Prerna Vanga is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and is currently serving as Assistant Editor-In-Chief for The Spartan Shield. Her favorite classes are Honors Journalism and AP Language and Composition. Outside of school,...

Hannah McVey is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Business Manager for the online Spartan Shield. Hannah is the captain of the cheerleading team and is on the varsity track team. She is also the captain o...

Timothy Ku is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Business Manager for the Spartan Shield. Timothy is interested in business, finance and anything leadership oriented. He currently takes MAT:156 Stat...

Ashwin Parab is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and the News Editor for the Spartan Shield. Ashwin is passionate about engineering and aspires to be a mechanical engineer someday. At PVHS, Ashwin participates in Ethics B...

Laura Chen is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Feature Editor for the Spartan Shield. Outside of journalism, she enjoys her AP 3D Art and photography classes as well as Calculus III. At PV, La...

Jessica “Jessie” Clemons is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. She is the Sports Editor for the Spartan Shield. At school, Jessie participates in softball, basketball, and track and field. She has been privileged by part...

Nikhil is a writer and Opinion Editor for the Spartan Shield. He enjoys playing varsity tennis and running cross country, along with participating in classes such as AP Calculus BC, Psychology, and AP Macroeconomics. Nikhil i...

Margil Sanchez Carmona is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is the Arts & Entertainment editor. He likes to tell people he has eccentric taste in films and music, although he spends most of his time watching old D...

Grace Schmidt is a Junior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the Student Life Editor for Pleasant Valley’s Spartan Shield. As of the 2023-2024 school year, Grace is involved in a variety of clubs. She is t...

Shelby Brown is a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield and a Senior at Pleasant Valley High School. She currently has a full and tight schedule but enjoys most of her classes. In her free time, she enjoys working and cleaning as ...

Aditya Satya Narayan is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. After high school, Aditya plans to major in Aerospace Engineering at an undecided university. Besides Honors Jour...

Ellie Samec is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. Ellie is a writer and a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield, and this is her first year participating in the journalism program at PV. She has played the violin in the PV...

Henry Gannaway is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and is serving as a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. He is a member of Pleasant Valley’s student council and social committee, an executive for the Model United Nations cl...

Roger is a senior in Pleasant Valley High School and a copy editor in the Spartan Shield. He has interest in many different topics ranging from engineering, boxing, wrestling, gaming, and cooking. Roger intends to go into colleg...

Owen Stoltz is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. His passion is bass fishing and he competes in tournaments both locally and regionally for organizations such as Major League Fishing an...

Nikhil Namshamgari is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. Nikhil’s favorite classes include AP Physics, anatomy, and journalism. Outside of school, Nikhil has an intere...

Cole Halupnik is a Senior at PV and is the Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. Cole is an aspiring engineer and hopes to study to be an aerospace engineer in college. He enjoys taking classes like Engineering Problems, AP Physic...

Gabi Ragins is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and currently serves as the ___ of Spartan Shield. She enjoys reading her favorite comfort books at whatever coffee shop she is trying out that week. In addition to readi...

Priya Suresh is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and is Social Media Manager for the online Spartan Shield. She participates in school tennis and band. Outside of school you can find her working at Small Town Pastry or...

Muskan Mehta is a senior at Pleasant Valley and is the Social Media Manager for the Spartan Shield. Her interests include psychology, law, and writing, and she hopes to pursue a career as a lawyer on the east coast. Muskan’s f...

Armaan Bhagwat is a senior at Pleasant Valley high school and is the Spartan Shield’s Photo Manager. He’s interested in biomedical sciences and anatomy, and he wants to major in biomedical engineering/sciences with an aspiration of becoming ...

Cassi Paustian is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. Cassi is this year’s infographic manager for the Spartan Shield. At PVHS, her favorite subjects are related to Math and Science. Cassi actively participates in Girls ...

Kyle Almgren is a senior at PV and is one of the “Nailed it, Failed it” anchors for the Spartan Shield. Kyle’s favorite classes at PV include AP Physics 2 and Statistics. He participates in PV’s Finance Club, and runs T...

Alex Lokenvitz is a senior at PV and plans to further his education at the University of Iowa. Alex has played football all 4 years of high school and is also involved in other non school related sports. Alex has also been in b...

Shivam Patel is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and the site manager for the Spartan Shield. Shivam is interested in computer science and aspires to be a computer software engineer. Shivam’s favorite classes include AP Phy...

Luke Allaman is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the editor of the *Nailed it, Failed it* video section for the Spartan Shield. He enjoys math and business classes and hopes to dual major in business analytic...

Justin Clemons is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is one of the anchors for the “Nailed it, Failed it” show for the Spartan Shield. After high school, Justin plans on majoring in Marketing at Iowa State. In his...

Johnny Ziegelbein is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and the PV Only Editor for the Spartan Shield. At school, he participates in soccer, Future Business Leaders of America, and Finance Club. Last year, his finance cl...

Ariana Assadi is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. During her time at Pleasant Valley, Ariana has participated in many academic and extracurricular activities. Her numerous out-of-school activities include soccer and w...

Alex Blunk is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the Classroom Manager for the Spartan Shield. He enjoys his full schedule of classes and being able to spend time with his friends and classmates. He hopes to dua...

Tyler Nels is a senior at Pleasant Valley and is the Overflow Editor for the Spartan Shield. Tyler looks forward to studying biology in college, going into oncology, and eventually curing people of their cancer. He enjoys vari...

Troy is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is the website manager at the Spartan Shield. He will major in Cybersecurity Engineering at Iowa State University. After school, he leads the Everything That’s Radical rob...

Ayah Alsheikha is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School, and Lead Editor of the Online Spartan Shield, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Print Spartan Shield. Ayah is passionate about the environment as president of Environmental C...