The student news site of Pleasant Valley High School

Spartan Shield

The student news site of Pleasant Valley High School

Spartan Shield

The student news site of Pleasant Valley High School

Spartan Shield

2023-2024 Staff

Jae Jepsen
Editor-in-Chief

Jae Jepsen

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
Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Prerna Vanga

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,...

Abby Moroney
Business Manager

Abby Moroney

Abby Moroney is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Business Manager of the online Spartan Shield. Abby is passionate about soccer and plays on the varsity girls soccer team. Outside of school Abby voluntee...

Hannah McVey
Business Manager

Hannah McVey

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
Business Manager

Timothy Ku

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 Statistics a...

Ashwin Parab
News Editor

Ashwin Parab

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
Feature Editor

Laura Chen

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...

Jessie Clemons
Sports Editor

Jessie Clemons

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 Behere
Opinion Editor

Nikhil Behere

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
Arts and Entertainment Editor

Margil Sanchez Carmona

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
Student Life Editor

Grace Schmidt

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...

Selah DeVore
Copy Editor

Selah DeVore

Selah DeVore is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the copy editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, Selah is very involved with the theater department both on and offstage, most recently serving as the co-dire...

Shelby Brown
Copy Editor

Shelby Brown

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 Narayan
Copy Editor

Aditya Narayan

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
Copy Editor

Ellie Samec

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
Copy Editor

Henry Gannaway

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 Weng
Copy Editor

Roger Weng

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
Copy Editor

Owen Stoltz

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
Copy Editor

Nikhil Namshamgari

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
Copy Editor

Cole Halupnik

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...

Asritha Gunukula
Multimedia Manager

Asritha Gunukula

Asritha Gunukula is a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Multimedia Manager for the Spartan Shield. Asritha is passionate about computer science, design, and writing as her favorite classes are AP Compute...

Ameya Menon
Multimedia Manager

Ameya Menon

Ameya Menon is currently a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as Multimedia Manager. Apart from journalism, some of the classes she enjoys taking include Astronomy and Calculus III. She also is a member of girl’...

Gabi Ragins
Multimedia Manager

Gabi Ragins

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

Priya Suresh
Social Media Manager

Priya Suresh

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
Social Media Manager

Muskan Mehta

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...

Jaydon Kachappily
Photo Manager

Jaydon Kachappily

Jaydon Kachappilly is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and the Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield. Jaydon is interested in physics and strives to be a physicist. Jaydon participates in jazz band, NHS, and tennis at P...

Luke Eckman
Photo Manager

Luke Eckman

Luke Eckman is a Senior at PV and is the Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield. Luke hopes to continue his education by studying to be an aerospace engineer in college. He enjoys taking classes like Calculus 3, and AP Physics 2, d...

Aedan Burkhart
Photo Manager

Aedan Burkhart

As of 2023-2024, Aedan Burkhart is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and works as the photo manager of the Spartan Shield. He deeply enjoys cooking whether it be for himself or his family and friends, and is always look...

Reetham Gubba
Photo Manager

Reetham Gubba

Reetham is a Pleasant Valley High School junior and serves as a Photo Manager for The Spartan Shield. His favorite classes are Calculus and AP Language and Composition. Outside of school, Reetham is a member of The Winter Soldi...

Armaan Bhagwat
Photo Manager

Armaan Bhagwat

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
Infographic Manager

Cassi Paustian

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 ...

Katelyn Morris
Arts and Entertainment Editor, News Editor

Katelyn Morris

Katelyn is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is serving as the section editor of the Arts and Entertainment and News sections. Outside of school she enjoys theatre, art, and shopping. Katelyn loves spending way too ...

Spencer Johnson
Sports Editor, Student Life Editor

Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Sports and Student Life Editor for the Spartan Shield. He enjoys math and economics classes, and plans on majoring in Business Economics next fall at...

Alene Keppy
Feature Editor, Opinion Editor

Alene Keppy

Alene Keppy is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Feature Editor and Opinion Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, Alene is involved with Spartan Assembly, A Positive Place, and Leading Tones Jazz Choir. A...

Kyle Almgren
"Failed It" Anchor

Kyle Almgren

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
Sports Website Manager

Alex Lokenvitz

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
Site Manager

Shivam Patel

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
"Failed It" Editor

Luke Allaman

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...

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"Failed It" Anchor

Justin Clemons

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
PV Only Editor

Johnny Ziegelbein

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
Design Editor

Ariana Assadi

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
Classroom Manager

Alex Blunk

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
Overflow Editor

Tyler Nels

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 Tomson
Site Manager

Troy Tomson

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
Lede Editor

Ayah Alsheikha

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...

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