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The Eyrie

The student news site of Olathe South High School

The Eyrie

The student news site of Olathe South High School

The Eyrie

2024-2025 Staff

Mya Roberts
Editor-in-chief

Mya Roberts

Mya Roberts, senior, is one of three editors-in-chief. This is her fourth year on staff. She has multiple placings in KSPA monthly competitions and regional competitions. Outside of school, Roberts loves to read and hang out with friends every chance ...

Makenna Aiello
Editor-in-chief

Makenna Aiello

Makenna Aiello, senior, is in her third year of newspaper and her second year serving as an editor-in-chief. In her rare free time, she can always be found reading a book at the library or spending time with her friends. She is so excited for her fina...

Damien Courtney
Editor-in-chief

Damien Courtney

Damien Courtney, junior, is a second year member of The Eyrie and serves as an editor-in-chief. Outside of the newspaper, he focuses his free time on pottery, hanging out his friends and tinkering with his 3d printer. Courtney is very excited for his se...

Mikey Ashley
Print managing editor

Mikey Ashley

Mikey Ashley, senior, is enjoying his second year on staff. He loves travel, music, positivity, fashion, and art. He is excited to meet people this year and encourage as many as possible. Burnout is his worst enemy.

Mj Garcia
Digital managing editor

Mj Garcia

Mj Garcia, senior, is in her second year on staff and is stepping into the new role of digital managing editor. After high school, Garcia plans on taking a gap year before entering Paralegal Studies at a university on the West Coast or in New England. ...

Juliana Rangel
Layout editor

Juliana Rangel

Juliana Rangel, senior, is the layout editor of the newspaper. In addition to newspaper, Rangel is also the editor-in-chief of the yearbook. Rangel has won several awards in design, including but not limited to 3rd place yearbook layout in KSPA monthly com...

Sylvia Grimsley
Art editor

Sylvia Grimsley

Sylvia Grimsley, senior, is the lead artist for the '24-'25 Eyrie staff and is in her fourth year on newspaper. She enjoys putting on her favorite music and sitting down with her sketchbook or a good read. Grimsley plans to travel before studying mol...

Allison Edmonds
Reporter

Allison Edmonds

Allison Edmonds, senior, is in her first year on the Eyrie. She likes to paint in her free time and focuses her energy towards poetry writing 70% of the time she is awake. The other 30% is spent divided between friends, work, and watching comedies. She...

Alison Kelling
Reporter

Alison Kelling

Alison Kelling, sophomore, is part of the Business Finance Academy. Kelling loves to draw and read during most of her free time and likes to take in cats and kittens to foster into a home. She has 3 siblings, one older and the other two are younger. ...

Alexis Wilson
Reporter

Alexis Wilson

Alexis Wilson, freshman, is in her first on staff. Some of her hobbies is coloring, reading, writing, theater. She loves to hang out with friend. Her favorites colors are pink, teal blue, and purple. She also loves to be outside when it is nice outside. ...

Ally Searl
Reporter

Ally Searl

Ally Searle, senior, is in her second year on staff. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting, baking, and learning about neuroscience. She loves concerts and watching bad movies. Searle is excited for another year on staff.

Andrea Lucas
Reporter

Andrea Lucas

Andrea Lucas is a junior, and this is their first year on the team. They are a writer for the newspaper. In her spare time, they enjoy music, singing, theatre, and songwriting, the latter of which they aspire to pursue as a career in the future. She ...

Austin Brown
Reporter

Austin Brown

Austin Brown, freshman, in his first year on staff. He loves music and his favorite music artists are Morgan Wallan, Luke Combs, Luke Bryan and Rihanna. He also loves sports like basketball and football. He also likes hanging out with friends and famil...

Barrett Yahn
Reporter

Barrett Yahn

Barrett Yahn, sophomore, in his first year on staff. Yahn plays baseball at Olathe South and led his team in batting average last year. Yahn enjoys spending time with friends, and his family and being active.

Bryson Steward
Reporter

Bryson Steward

Bryson Steward, sophomore, enjoys photography as a hobby and is excited to start working his first year for the newspaper. He also likes hanging out with friends, playing video games, and programming.

Charli Robinette
Reporter

Charli Robinette

Charli Robinette, senior, second year on staff, is a reporter for the eyrie. Outside of newspaper, she enjoys hanging out with her dog and friends, and listening to music, going to as many concerts as possible.

Collin Dechant
Reporter

Collin Dechant

Collin Dechant, junior, is looking forward to being on the team and being able to report on events. Dechant enjoys being with his friends and being out in nature. He also enjoys being part of school sports and other activities such as band and newspaper...

Easton Yahn
Reporter

Easton Yahn

Easton Yahn, senior, is a first year reporter on staff. Yahn is part of the baseball team and an assistant coach for Macaws Baseball Club. He has a passion for trying his best in whatever he does. He is looking forward to taking a class with his brother i...

Emily Luedke
Reporter

Emily Luedke

Emily Luedke, sophomore, first year reporter, play for the girls' soccer and girls' basketball team. Luedke is part of the Olathe South Choir.

Reporter

Jaeden Lawson

Jaeden Lawson is a senior and is finishing his high school career with The Eyrie! Lawson is a part of Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Computer Science Academy. Outside of school, Lawson focuses on digital animation and story writing, the latter being ...

Kailey Donnell
Reporter

Kailey Donnell

Kailey Donnell is in her 3rd year on staff. She loves reading and writing, hanging out with friends. Donnell loves going out of her way to make people feel included, and create a welcoming presence. She is very excited for her third year on staff. ...

Kennedy Smith
Reporter

Kennedy Smith

Kennedy Smith, junior, is in first year on staff as a reporter. Smith spends most of her time hanging out with friends, traveling and reading. She also loves music and drinks an obsessive amount of ice coffee. She is looking forward to her first year ...

Kimberly Teeter
Reporter

Kimberly Teeter

Kimberly Teeter, Junior, is in her second year on staff. Originally, Teeter took part in yearbook but then joined the Eryie as a reporter. She likes video games and listening to music. She looks forward to being apart of a new experience. ...

Megan Mahoney
Reporter

Megan Mahoney

With her first year on staff as a junior, Megan Mahoney looks forward to engaging in reporting, interviewing, page designing, and creating a calm, warm, environment. Mahoney enjoys listening to music; indie and soft alternative rock music in particular. ...

Nancy Gonzalez
Reporter

Nancy Gonzalez

Nancy Gonzalez, senior, is in her first year on The Eyrie. Gonzalez enjoys playing soccer, reading and playing her cello in her free time. Gonzalez is excited to be in newspaper this year and can't wait to get started.

Naomi Rodriguez
Reporter

Naomi Rodriguez

Naomi Rodriguez, sophomore, is excited for her first year of newspaper. She enjoys playing soccer and doing any form of art. She values her relationship with god and others and likes to talk about how to get involved with Jesus, she likes to be busy and h...

Natalia Blas
Reporter

Natalia Blas

Natalia Blas, sophomore, is in her second year on staff. Blas is very family-oriented. She also loves to read, primarily realistic fiction. She also loves music as she is learning how to play piano. Although she may be shy at first, once comfortable,...

Ryan Wiley
Reporter

Ryan Wiley

Ryan Wiley, sophomore, just joined The Eyrie. His complete role is yet to be determined. His hobbies are programming, drawing, and spending time with his family. He owns a female, black cat which goes by the name "Kitty," how creative!...

Sinai Swall
Reporter

Sinai Swall

Sinai Swall, senior, is excited for her first year on staff. In her free time, she works and spends time with her boyfriend. She enjoys shopping, crocheting, and animals.

Terri Spence
Reporter

Terri Spence

Terri Spence, a junior, is a reporter in her second year of staff. Outside of school she spends her free time reading, listening to music and spending time with her family. She enjoys cheesy romance novels, comics, indie music and traveling. ...

Tessa Moya
Reporter

Tessa Moya

Tessa Moya, junior, is in her first year of staff. Outside of Newspaper, she plays softball for the school and for this year she is going into choir. She enjoys spending her time with her friends as well as making new ones. ...

Zoey Berger
Reporter

Zoey Berger

Zoey Berger is a new freshman on staff for her first year. She enjoys band, theatre, and drumming and will yell fun facts to you if you ask nicely. She loves video games, stuffed animals, thrift stores, and reading. She also consumes way too much coff...

Andy Forest
Artist

Andy Forest

Andy Forest has been on photojournalism for 3 years and is starting his first year of newspaper. He is a big fan of art and an even bigger fan of Halloween and Horror. Out of school his hobbies include drawing, collecting bones, playing games and reading....

Beca Ibarra
Artist

Beca Ibarra

Beca Ibarra, junior, is in her second year on staff. She loves being a plant mom, finding hidden thrift stores, going to the skate park, collecting Sanrio items, and being a cat mom. Furthermore, she's obsessed with music! Her favorite artists consist o...

Chester Kitchen
Artist

Chester Kitchen

Chester Kitchen, a junior, is on his second year of staff as an artist. He enjoys photography, drawing and procrastinating. When he isn't avoiding all his school work, he is usually hanging out with friends or playing dress to impress....

Danny Hufford
Artist

Danny Hufford

Danny Hufford, junior, is a first year artist on staff. They are a part of the GSA club. They enjoy all forms of art and takes as many art classes at Olathe South as possible. They also love the Olathe South marching band and other music in general. Th...

Harper Medlin
Artist

Harper Medlin

Harper Medlin, sophomore, is a new artist on the staff and is excited to share her work with the newspaper. Outside of school, she enjoys theatre, music, and dance, and has been on a competitive team for six years now. Medlin is looking forward to her ...

Jackie Small
Artist

Jackie Small

Jackie Small is an artist in the within newspaper, a senior in her second year on staff. She always loved drawing, but most of her inspiration comes from her favorite shows and games. Yet she is willing to draw art commission outside of class activitie...

Jillian Arnold
Artist

Jillian Arnold

Jillian Arnold is an artist, this is their second year on staff. They really, really like ninja turtles.

Allie Elton
Photo editor-in-chief

Allie Elton

Allie Elton, senior, is a 3rd year photojournalist. Elton has placed in photography under sports feature, student life, academics and caption writing in KSPA 2024 regionals and 2nd place winner in state. Elton hopes to continue and grow in her photograph...

Audrey Stover
Photo editor-in-chief

Audrey Stover

Audrey Stover, senior, is a fourth year photojournalist and an editor-in-chief. In her free time, she likes to sleep and hang out with her cats and friends.

Blaine Leyden
Photo print managing editor

Blaine Leyden

Blaine Leyden, junior, is a third year photojournalist. Leyden is also a part of the baseball team, he loves working out, hanging out with friends, and playing baseball. Some of his awards include two first place finishes in sports actions, three time...

Gabby Moritz
Photo digital managing editor

Gabby Moritz

Gabby Moritz is a second year photojournalist and a junior. In her spare time she reads, bakes, of course takes photos, and watches the same shows and movies over and over.

Adalyn Sparks
Photo business manager

Adalyn Sparks

Adalyn Sparks, senior, is a third year photojournalist on staff. Sparks helped found the 2024-2025 photojournalist business, and enacts as one of the business managers alongside Katie Hooker. In her free time, Sparks likes to go on long drives, eat, an...

Katie Hooker
Photo business manager

Katie Hooker

Katie Hooker, junior, is a third-year photojournalist on staff. Hooker helped found Scenes of Southside, the phojo business. Hooker is also one of the business managers with Adalyn Sparks. In her free time she plays softball and loves to do art and wo...

Carson Thoendel
Social Media Editor

Carson Thoendel

Carson Thoendel, sophomore, is a second year photojournalist. Thoendel enjoys golfing, being around his family, and taking pictures for sports teams. He is looking forward to his sophomore year and all the opportunities to come. ...

Adah Reid
Photographer

Adah Reid

Adah Reid, junior, is a second year staff member and first year photographer. Outside of school, Reid likes to read, write, draw, and crochet. Her three cats and two dogs are common subjects of her home photography sessions.

Aiden O'Neill
Photographer

Aiden O’Neill

Aiden O'Neill, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist. Aiden is apart of the baseball and soccer teams at South. Outside of school he likes to hangout with family and friends and to play sports.

Arthur Thomas
Photographer

Arthur Thomas

Arthur Thomas, sophomore, is a first-year photojournalist and a second-year yearbook staff. Outside of school Thomas plays baseball and football.

Char Hininger
Photographer

Char Hininger

Charlotte Hininger, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist on staff. She enjoys going to the gym, hanging out with family, and is very involved in her church. Charlotte is excited for her first year and wants to take every opportunity to learn new t...

Charlotte Cast
Photographer

Charlotte Cast

Charlotte Cast, sophomore, is a first year in photojournalist. She is on the softball team. She enjoys hanging out with her friends and family. She's looking forward to this year.

Cody Arenholz
Photographer

Cody Arenholz

Cody Arenholz, sophomore, is excited to be on staff. He plays baseball, wrestling, and loves to fish. He is looking forward to building relationships with athletes through his photography. He is most excited to take pictures of Friday night lights!...

Dylan Gad
Photographer

Dylan Gad

Dylan Gad, junior, is a first year photojournalist for the 24-25 school year. Gad is a part of the STEM Center and Business Finance Academy at South. He also enjoys playing ice hockey and spending time with family at home.

Grace Searls
Photographer

Grace Searls

Grace Searls, sophomore, is a first year photo journalist on staff. She joined the debate team in her Freshman year. She enjoys reading and writing as well as spending time with her friends. In her free time, she likes to sleep. She is also part of the Fa...

Hannah Lange
Photographer

Hannah Lange

Hannah Lange, sophomore, first year photojournalist. In her spare time she loves to bake, watch movies, singing, and hang out with family and friends.

Jacob Hyman
Photographer

Jacob Hyman

Jacob Hyman, a sophomore, is a first-year photojournalist. outside of school, he enjoys geocaching, cooking, plane spotting, and volunteering at the Shawnee Mission Radio Control Club.

Jadyn Salge
Photographer

Jadyn Salge

Jadyn Salge, senior, second year photojournalist. Salge is also co editor-in-chief of the schools yearbook and its her third year on staff. Outside of school, she loves to hangout with friends and escape to Colorado whenever she can. ...

JD Page
Photographer

JD Page

JD Page, sophomore, is excited to be in photojournalism for the first time. He is also involved in marching band and is excited to see what this year will come out to be.

Johann Navarro Delfin
Photographer

Johann Navarro Delfin

Johann Navarro Delfin, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist. Outside of school, Johann loves playing his guitar, lifting very heavy dumbbells at the gym on a daily basis, playing outside sports, and spending quality with friends....

Kate Price
Photographer

Kate Price

Kate Price, junior, is a first year photojournalist. Price is a competitive dancer outside of school. She loves cats, baking, and working with little kids at her job. Price is looking forward to a great year on staff.

Lily Frye
Photographer

Lily Frye

Lily Frye, senior, is entering her second year of photojournalism. Other than doing photojournalism, she is in NAHS and the girls swim team. When outside school, she enjoys hanging out with friends, cuddling with her cat, and working....

Micah Jonas
Photographer

Micah Jonas

Micah Jonas, junior, first-year photojournalist. Outside of school, Micah is a local photographer, he takes photos of cars, streets, and sports! His motto is "Shoot Everything" He likes to play soccer, hang with friends, and spend time with family....

Molly Hansen
Photographer

Molly Hansen

Molly Hansen, senior, first year photojournalist on staff. She is apart of IPS peer mentoring. Hansen works for JCPRD at an elementary school doing after school care. She spends a lot of time reading, hanging out with her friends, and going on drives. ...

Photographer

Noah Upjohn

Noah Upjohn, senior, is a second year photographer. In his free time he can constantly be found with his nose in a book or hanging out with his friends.

Oscar Ramirez
Photographer

Oscar Ramirez

Oscar Ramirez is a first year photojournalist. In his free time he enjoys listening to music and taking care of his reptiles. Ramirez is excited to picture memorable moments.

Reese Ferneau
Photographer

Reese Ferneau

Reese Ferneau, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist. She enjoys hanging out with friends and doing outside activities. She's looking forward to the 2024-2025 school year.

Sam Kenworthy
Photographer

Sam Kenworthy

Sam Kenworthy, freshman, is in his first year. Kenworthy likes to play football, baseball, basketball and likes to sleep. He loves to tackle people, is funny and loves to take pictures of sports.

Stephanie Bradbury
Photographer

Stephanie Bradbury

Stephanie Bradbury, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist. Outside of school, Stephanie enjoys cooking, working, traveling, walking, animals, and socializing with her peers, especially her family.

Taryn Charrette
Photographer

Taryn Charrette

Taryn Charrette, freshman, is a first year photojournalist. Out of school, Charrette enjoys dancing, singing, and playing guitar.

Photographer

Winnie McDowell

Winnie McDowell, sophomore, is a first year photojournalist on staff. McDowell enjoys soccer, running and being with friends. She is looking forward to her first year on staff and growing as both a photographer as well as writer. ...

Wrigley Leyden
Photographer

Wrigley Leyden

Wrigley Leyden, sophomore, second year photojournalist. She is a part of the Falcon Golf team. Leyden enjoys playing golf, hanging out with friends, and late night drives. Leyden is looking forward to another great year as a Falcon....

Zoe Juarez
Photographer

Zoe Juarez

Zoe Juarez, senior, is a second year photojournalist. She is part of the Olathe South Writing center and NAHS. Outside of school she enjoys hanging out with friends, listening to music, and spending an unhealthy amount of time watching movies....

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