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2024-2025 The West Press Staff

Nikos Stollenwerk

Nikos is a senior in Journalism 3. He loves sports and hopes to go into sports journalism as a profession, but is currently working just to make some extra cash. He is in Lakota West Broadcasting and is heavily involved. In his...

Andrew Odle

Andrew is a senior in Journalism III at Lakota West High School. He loves sports, and he loves to write about certain topics in sports. His favorite sport is basketball, and he enjoys playing with friends. He is also a member of...

Izabella Smith

Izzy is a junior in Journalism II at Lakota West High School. She has been in Lakota since 6th grade and has become very fond of her school and friends. Izzy would like to write about entertainment, travel, and news. Writing is on...

Julianne Overfield-Singh

Julianne Overfield-Singh is a junior in her 2nd year of Journalism.  She is most interested in writing about music and entertainment; her strong suit is creative writing.  Julianne’s favorite hobbies consist of painting, wr...

Lma Abdoh

Lma is a junior at Lakota West High School. This is Lma’s 2nd year in journalism. Lma would like to write about politics, news, and opinion articles because she's very "opinionated" (just has feedback on so many things in t...

Saniya Taylor

Saniya is a junior and is in Journalism II. She loves to write about pop-culture, controversy, and issues within school. Saniya’s hobbies consist of track, cross country, bedazzling, and playing the piano. Her goals for her fu...

Amira Scherzinger

Amira is a junior, currently in her second year of journalism. Amira loves sports, especially volleyball. She hopes to bring a broader perspective on sports, not just focusing on popular sports, and showcase talented athletes ...

Ruby Hutchison

Ruby is a Junior in her second year of Journalism. Outside of the school walls, she is a drummer and keyboard player for School of Rock. In addition to that, Ruby enjoys reading, listening to music, and traveling with her family. ...

Juliana Wilkes

Juliana is a junior at West, and this is her second year in journalism. She has been dancing for 13 years now, and for 10 years at her current studio, Z Company Arts. She hopes to go to college for dance after high school, to...