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The Western Hemisphere

The student news site of Western Albemarle High School - Crozet, VA

The Western Hemisphere

The student news site of Western Albemarle High School - Crozet, VA

The Western Hemisphere

2024-2025 Staff

Gigi Lane
Staff Writer

Gigi Lane

Gigi Lane is a freshman at Western and is in her first year of journalism. She enjoys playing tennis, hanging with friends, and shopping.

Nora Rosenbaum
Staff Writer

Nora Rosenbaum

Nora Rosenbaum is a freshman who is in her first year of journalism. She enjoys running, listening to music, watching movies, and animals. Her favorite things to do are go shopping and hanging out with friends.

Jack Klobuchar
Staff Writer

Jack Klobuchar

Jack Klobuchar is a sophomore at Western and in his first year of journalism. He likes to write about sports.

Hayden Dodson
Staff Writer

Hayden Dodson

Hayden Dodson is a freshman of Western Albemarle and in her first year of journalism.

Hadley Cabell
Staff Writer

Hadley Cabell

Hadley Cabell is a freshmen at Western Albemarle and is in her first year of journalism. She loves running for the cross country team during the week and riding horses on the weekends. She also spends most of her time at home...

Zeb Kendall
Staff Writer

Zeb Kendall

Zeb is a freshman at Western in his first year of journalism. He enjoys listening to music like Mac Demarco and Tyler, The Creator, hanging out with his friends, playing guitar, and watching movies. After school, he rides with...

Maddox Viele
Staff Writer

Maddox Viele

Maddox Viele is a freshman at Western, and she is in her first year of journalism. In her spare time she enjoys reading, writing, and listening to music. She also likes playing DnD, as well as softball.

Maddie Burnette
Staff Writer

Maddie Burnette

Maddie is a sophomore at Western and in her first year of journalism. She enjoys hanging out with friends, playing sports, and watching Western sports. One thing Maddie likes about WAHS is football games.

Sam Rosenbaum
Staff Writer

Sam Rosenbaum

Sam Rosenbaum is a junior at Western and in his first year of journalism. He enjoys watching movies, playing the cello, and hanging out with his friends. He is also Vice President of the We the People club and a member of the...

Jasper Barry
Staff Writer

Jasper Barry

Jasper is a Freshman at WAHS he is in his first year as a staff writer. Outside of School Jasper enjoys strumming the guitar, playing soccer, hanging out with his family, and traveling.

Bo O'Connor
Staff Writer

Bo O’Connor

Bo is a freshman at Western Albemarle entering his first year writing for the Western Hemisphere. He plays Basketball & Baseball and plans to try out for both teams in the upcoming seasons. He enjoys hanging out with friends,...

Reid Keller
Staff Writer

Reid Keller

Reid is a junior at WAHS in his second year of journalism. He also takes part in student leadership by serving as a class officer, and co-founded the Debate Club. Outside of school, he enjoys tennis, traveling, and hanging out...

Isabella Stewart
Staff Writer

Isabella Stewart

Isabella is a sophomore at WAHS and is a staff writer in her second year of journalism. She enjoys listening to music, reading, and hiking. Her favorite author is Franz Kafka.

Wyatt Witt
Staff Writer

Wyatt Witt

Wyatt is a junior in his third year of journalism. He is on the wrestling team, and dabbles in Model UN. In his free time, he likes to listen to music, play videogames and watch sports.

Ika Gottlieb
News Editor

Ika Gottlieb

Ika is a junior as WAHS and is the news editor in her second year of journalism. Outside of the Western Hemisphere, she enjoys language in all its forms, whether writing essays, reading novels, or learning to speak a new one.

Olivia Moore
Student Life Editor

Olivia Moore

Olivia is a junior in her third year of journalism. She enjoys participating in clubs such as Model UN, and she plays soccer. In her free time, you can find Olivia reading, spending time with friends, or listening to music.

Maria Kinnan
Student Life Editor

Maria Kinnan

Maria Kinnan is a senior in her third year of journalism, and is co-student life editor. Outside of writing articles, Maria is on the crew team at Western, and enjoys baking, hiking, and being outside.

Ike Noth
A&E Editor

Ike Noth

Ike is a junior in his third year of journalism. He participates deeply in school spirit as the Junior Class President, loves to play video games, and watches a lot of TV. Ike loves Batman and Spiderman.

Millie Wiegard
Sports Editor

Millie Wiegard

Millie Wiegard is a junior at Western, and she is in her 2nd year of journalism. She is from Roanoke, Virginia and moved to Charlottesville last December. She plays lacrosse for Western, and was part of the State Championship...

Lucy Shadel
Opinion Editor

Lucy Shadel

Lucy Shadel is a senior and the Opinion Editor for the Western Hemisphere. Outside of journalism, Lucy enjoys participating in the Western Model UN and We the People teams and acting in the school plays. She spends her free time...

Gray Tracey
Editor-in-Chief

Gray Tracey

Gray is a junior in year three of journalism and a co-Editor-in-Chief at the Hemisphere. Outside of journalism, they are on props and mic crews for theater and study game design at Center I. Outside of that, they enjoy reading,...

Sophie Mathew
Editor-in-Chief

Sophie Mathew

Sophie is a senior at Western in her third year of journalism. This year she is an Editor-in-Chief and is excited for this new role. She is on the crew team and enjoys eating food, being with friends, and listening to music.

Annabelle Mackey
Editor-in-Chief

Annabelle Mackey

Annabelle is a senior in her third year of journalism, serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief. Outside of journalism, she is involved in Model UN, FBLA, and Jazz Band. In her free time, you can find Annabelle listening to music, playing...

Audrey Miracle
Editor-in-Chief

Audrey Miracle

Audrey is a senior at Western in her fourth year of journalism and is a co-Editor-In-Chief. She is a member of the swim team and likes to spend her spare time reading, baking, or hanging out with friends. One thing Audrey loves...

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