Alex Banerjee is a Pleasant Valley High School senior and serves as the News Section Editor. Alex plans to attend a 4-year university and law school to pursue a career in the legal field as a lawyer. His favorite classes at PV incl...

Arissa Khan is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is currently serving as the Opinion Editor of the Spartan Shield. During her four years in high school, she has participated and been involved in numerous extracurricular and...

Josh Thomas is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. He also aspires to get into medical school to become a psychiatrist. Josh participates in Track and Field and Ethics Bowl, and his ...

Sumika Thapa is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Feature Editor for the Spartan Shield. She enjoys numerous activities both in and out of school. At PV she is the co-president of GLI (Girls Learn Internation...

Cheyenne Meeks is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is currently the Arts & Entertainment Editor for the PV Spartan Shield. Her favorite classes include AP Physics, Astronomy and English. During her years at PV, she has...

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...

Drake Hanson, the Photo Manager for the Spartan Shield, is a Senior at Pleasant Valley High School. Drake has been playing ice hockey for the Quad City Ice Eagles for the past 6 years. He is now the captain of the U18 team. Dr...

Brooklyn Gowan is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the PV Only Section Editor. She enjoys going to sporting events and supporting her school. In the fall, she is planning to attend the University of Iowa e...

Grace Sherman is a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the Student Life Editor for the Spartan Shield. She is 17 years old, and has been a competitive dancer all her life. She works at her studio teaching a variety of styles to...

Megan is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School, and is one of the new copy editors for the online Spartan Shield. She has many different interests, but she is most passionate about literature and creative writing, and inten...

Ike Swanson is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Business Manager for the Spartan Shield. At PVHS, his favorite classes are his AP Physics classes and the Business classes. He is also very involv...

Sarah Abdullah is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Social Media Manager on the Spartan Shield. Throughout high school, Sarah has participated in the school’s Varsity Dance team. She was a part of the 202...

Caroline Corcoran is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. This is her first year working with the Spartan Shield, and she is excited to be a writer. Throughout her four years of high school, Caroline has become involved in...

Elizabeth “Libby” Kamp, is a senior at Pleasant Valley, and serves as the Sports Editor for the Spartan Shield. Since the age of five, Libby has participated in soccer. She also has played for the Spartans as goalie, and has...

Sam is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. Aside from journalism, Sam’s favorite classes are Spanish, Physics, and Economics. Outside of school Sam volunteer...

Isaiah Steele, the Spartan Shield Site Manager, is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. He competes in cross country for the Spartans, and codes for the Everything That’s Radical PV robotics team. He enjoys pursuing person...

Caity Burke is a member of the 2023 class of Pleasant Valley, working as the Social Media Manager for the Spartan Shield. After school hours, you can find her working as a barista at Atomic Coffee Bar, or cheering on the sidelin...

Daniel Marshall is a member of the Pleasant Valley High School senior class. He has a passion for learning technology and ponders about how primitive our current devices will look in the next 100 years. At just 14 years old, he...

Emma Vaaler is a senior at Pleasant Valley and will be serving as the photo manager of the Spartan Shield this year. She is 17 years old, was a dancer for most of her life, and lived overseas for seven years in Finland and Russ...

Maura Peters is a Senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a Photo Manager of the Spartan Shield. In the fall, Maura plays on the Varsity Volleyball team that previously earned a state title in 2021. She also compete...

Quinn Russell is currently a Senior at Pleasant Valley High School, and this is her first year participating in Spartan Shield. Her job within Spartan Shield is Design Manager. Quinn wants to be able to express her views on th...

Luci Patel is currently a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. Her favorite classes in school are AP 2D Art, Economics, and PE. Luci is a member of PVHS’s student council, Sp...

Oskar Barudin is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the News Editor of the Spartan Shield. In his academic career at Pleasant Valley he has enjoyed the challenge of high level courses, with Government and Sp...

Tommy Glennon is a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. As a first-year contributor, they are thrilled to be working with such a talented staff. A member of numerous extracurriculars, Tommy keeps busy by singing with the Chambe...

Katy Babcock is a junior at Pleasant Valley and serves as a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. At PV, Katy is involved in A Positive Place, PV Pals, and Young Women's Group. Katy is a member of the girl's swim team and enjoys...

Sarah Chen is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as a Copy Editor for the Spartan Shield. At the high school, Sarah is involved in clubs including A Positive Place, Environmental Club, and PV Pals. She also helps run...

Gretchen Highberger is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as a copy editor for the Spartan Shield. Most afternoons in the fall, she can be found at cross country practice. Since freshman year, she has been a m...

Lydia Sommer is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. It is her first year working for the Spartan Shield and she serves as the PV Only Editor. While you may find her pursuing her passion in writing, you could also find Ly...

Rupika Jai Ganesh is currently a junior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Feature Editor for the Spartan Shield. Her favorite class in school is Spanish and her English course. Rupika is a member of PVHS’s student...

Pranav Suresh is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is the Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Spartan Shield. He is a four year member of the Pleasant Valley Boys Cross Country team and Pleasant Valley Track ...

Daniel Zietlow is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School participating in his first year on the spartan shield working as the Co-Sports Editor.  He has been in three sports throughout high school including Cross Country, Track ...

Karin Fowler is a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as co Sports Editor for the Spartan Shield. Throughout high school, Karin has participated in the school's volleyball team and was a part of the 2021 Championship team. She...

Kira McAuliffe is a Pleasant Valley Senior and serves as the Student Life Editor on the Spartan Shield. She keeps busy working as a barista at Cody Road Coffee and nannying kids after school. In her free time, she enjoys spend...

Leila Assadi is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and serves as the Lead Editor for the Spartan Shield. Throughout her four years of high school, Leila has participated in numerous extracurricular and academic activities, includ...

Jake Wilsted is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley high school and serves as the Business Manager of the Spartan Shield. At PV, Jake enjoys his involvement as President of Students for Political Action. Outside of school, he i...

Atharv Neema is a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the business manager for the Spartan Shield. In school, Atharv is the Vice President of Future Business leaders of America, Co-founder of the Competitive Chess Club, and...

Kushi Maridu, a former Site Manager for the Shield, is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and takes up the job of being a Co-Editor-in-Chief this year. He ran for the PV cross country team for all four of his years at th...

Shobini Iyer is currently a senior at Pleasant Valley and serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Spartan Shield. Aside from Honors Journalism, Shobini’s favorite classes consist of AP Physics and AP Calculus. In addition to...