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The Bobcat Prowl

The Student News Site of South Windsor High School

The Bobcat Prowl

2023-2024 Staff

Tiffany Castellon
Staff Writer

Tiffany Castellon

Tiffany Castellon is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. She is a staff member of The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper. She is excited to be a part of the journalism staff this year and hopes to inspire others to love writing as much as she does. When Tiffany has free time, she likes to fly on the high school varsity cheerleading team, hang out with friends, and play with her dogs.     ...

Andrew Kronnenwetter
Staff Writer

Andrew Kronnenwetter

Andrew Kronenwetter is a 16 year old Junior at South Windsor High School. He lives off making people happy and driving his car to car shows. Kronenwetter admires his family and prefers riding dirt bikes and quads over most other activities. This is Andrews second year taking Journalism and he is excited to be part of the bobcat prowl!

Erik Montes de Oca
Staff Writer

Erik Montes de Oca

Erik Montes De Oca is a Mexican writer for South Windsor’s Bobcat Prowl news. When Erik isn't writing for The Prowl, He's playing soccer for the South Windsor Bobcats. Moving here at a young age of 7 years, Erik has a mixed culture, spending around half his life in Mexico. He is fluent in Spanish and English, and currently learning french. Erik strives to do something in the medical field, and maybe...

Hana Moustafa
Staff Writer

Hana Moustafa

Hana Moustafa is a Staff Writer of The Bobcat Prowl newspaper at South Windsor High School. She is excited to be a part of the journalism crew this year. When she is older, she wants to work in medicine and aspires to assist many people. She can be seen biking, walking outside, at the beach, or shopping with friends during her free time. ...

Nick Perez
Staff Writer

Nick Perez

Nicolas Perez is a writer for the bobcat prowl, senior in high school who plays football , participates in track and field, as well as actively watching football.You can often see him when not injured at the field training as well as training others. Driven by big aspirations to go to a division one college program for either football or just academics on its own. Even though being given a small fram...

Emily Porter
Staff Writer

Emily Porter

Emily Porter is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. She’s on the swim team at the high school and swims outside of the school as well. In her free time, she’s either reading, writing, or chilling in bed with her cat. Emily began reading avidly at a young age, which shifted into a love for writing during quarantine. She continues to work on her writing skills when she can, and likes dabblin...

Ryan Rahman
Staff Writer

Ryan Rahman

Ryan Rahman is a writer for the The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper at South Windsor High School. One of the only Bengali students at South Windsor High School and the first Bengali Bobcat Royal at South Windsor High School. Once a top 128 player in the country for Rocket League, he is known for his short height yet big personality. His pug Bobby, one of the most popular dogs in school, is a well known...

Ethan Sands
Staff Writer

Ethan Sands

Ethan Sands is a new junior at South Windsor High School. He loves writing of any kind and is excited to start at  The Bobcat Prowl this year. In his free time, he likes to play basketball in his driveway and he also climbs at Stone Age Rock Gym in Manchester CT. He doesn’t know what career he wants to pursue, yet, but is planning to go to some sort of college after high school. Between high school...

Tatiana Walton
Staff Writer

Tatiana Walton

Tatiana Walton is Staff Writer for The Bobcat Prowl. She is currently a Junior at South Windsor High School. Walton has been cheerleader for the school since her sophomore year, but has been doing cheer every since the 7th Grade. She recently has discovered that she wants to become a videographer and editor when she gets older. For Walton’s free time she likes to catch up on any shows that she has mi...

Adam Albaghdadi
Staff Writer

Adam Albaghdadi

Adam Albaghdadi is a Junior at South Windsor High School. Albaghdadi is excited to write for The Bobcat Prowl. He is interested in the sports world and also plays football and lacrosse for SWHS. Albaghdadi enjoys spending time with friends and family, and you can be found at football and basketball games.

Izabel Dzubin
Staff Writer

Izabel Dzubin

Izabel Dzubin is a sophomore at South Windsor High School and has a strong passion for writing. Izabel enjoys writing for The Bobcat Prowl, and takes pleasure in writing about topics such as current events and sports. Throughout her sophomore year, Izabel participated in playing Field Hockey, Varsity Girls Basketball and being a member of the Girls Golf Team. When she is not playing sports, you can ...

Erin Fang
Staff Writer

Erin Fang

Erin is a freshman at South Windsor High School and is a member of The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper. She is excited to join the journalism staff this year and looks forward to writing and publishing articles. Erin enjoys running, playing the flute, volunteering, and baking in her free time. You will often see her running in the neighborhood, working out at the gym, or staying after school hours at...

Zoe Gagliardo
Staff Writer

Zoe Gagliardo

Zoe Gagliardo is a freshman at South Windsor High School and is excited for her first year as a staff writer for The Bobcat Prowl. In her free time, she loves to play lacrosse, field hockey, being with friends and going shopping. Zoe has loved writing since she was in elementary school and hopes to continue the love for it through The Bobcat Prowl.

Gwen Giard
Staff Writer

Gwen Giard

Gwen Giard is a junior at South Windsor High School. She enjoys everything about writing and has been interested in journalism from a very young age. She loves to share her opinion and share her interests with others. She is looking forward to being a part of The Bobcat Prowl to get the experience of working in a professional setting since she plans on studying some sort of journalism in college.

Lilliana Girouard
Staff Writer

Lilliana Girouard

Lilliana Girouard is a freshman at South Windsor High School. She’s excited to start writing for The Bobcat Prowl this year. She’s on the swim team at the high school and swims outside of school as well. In her free time, she likes to read, spend time with friends, and attend other swim meets to help out. After high school, she aims to be involved in the field of law.

Nicole Kamm
Staff Writer

Nicole Kamm

Nicole Kamm is a Senior at South Windsor high school. She is a staff member of The Bobcat Prowl newspaper. She is excited to inspire others to love writing as much as she does. She is a part of the journalism staff and can't wait to start writing. When Nicole has time to herself, she loves to spend time with her dog, family, friends, and read. She mostly wants to write about entertainment and sports.

Esha Malli
Staff Writer

Esha Malli

Esha Malli is a writer for The Bobcat Prowl. She enjoys playing and watching sports like volleyball and tennis, and she can often be found practicing for both either on the courts or in her backyard. She aims to play tennis or volleyball for a division one college and is interested in finance. Writing is one of her passions, and she has been in multiple competitions. Her love for language arts stemm...

Max McDonald
Staff Writer

Max McDonald

Max McDonald is a junior staff writer for The Bobcat Prowl newspaper. Max enjoys submitting short stories into writing contests and making wire jewelry outside of school. An avid lover of animals, Max has over 10 animals including: chickens, dogs, and cats. Max loves music, theater, and science. Max hopes to major in biochemistry and inspire other young women who wish to go into science.

Annalyse McKenna
Staff Writer

Annalyse McKenna

Annalyse McKenna is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. She looks forward to writing in any section on the Bobcat Prowl. She is a tri-sport athlete playing soccer in the Fall, indoor track in the Winter, and Outdoor track in the Spring. She dreams of becoming a pediatric surgeon when she is older. In her spare time, she loves hanging out with friends and family. ...

Hadi Memon
Staff Writer

Hadi Memon

Hadi Memon is a freshman at South Windsor High school. He is very excited to be a part of The Bobcat Prowl’s team. Hadi wants to work in the law field when he is older, and he enjoys writing. He can be seen hanging out with his friends, working on projects, reading books and playing video games in his free time.

Judith Mohan
Staff Writer

Judith Mohan

Judith Olivia Mohan is a freshman student writer from South Windsor High School. She is excited to be a part of the journalism crew this year. She is fluent in English, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi, speaks broken Telegu and is currently learning French through school. She is a guitarist with 2 ½ years of experience and a talented artist since a young age. When she is older, she aspires to work as a medical...

Katelyn Roux
Staff Writer

Katelyn Roux

Katelyn Roux is currently a senior at South Windsor High School and a staff writer for The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper. She is part of the girls soccer team at the high school and her club soccer team. She is verbally committed to Keene State to play soccer and continue her academic career. She enjoys going to the beach, reading and running in her free time.

Mia Ruiz
Staff Writer

Mia Ruiz

Mia Ruiz is currently a sophomore writer at The Bobcat Prowl. By joining the student paper, she hopes to communicate important topics such as sports and school events to her peers, while also improving her writing skills. When she is not writing for The Prowl, you can find her playing for the South Windsor girl’s soccer and basketball teams. Besides participating in numerous physical activities....

Pooravi Srivastava
Staff Writer

Pooravi Srivastava

Pooravi Srivastava is a freshman at South Windsor High School, and is excited to start journalism as a staff writer. During her free time, she loves to read, play volleyball and tennis, and watch her favorite TV shows. She has recently discovered that she wants to either pursue Business or Law in her future. Outside of school, you can find Pooravi hanging out with friends and family, or near Target...

Keerthana Toram
Staff Writer

Keerthana Toram

Keerthana Toram is a freshman at South Windsor High School. She enjoys spending time outside during the spring and summer. In the fall season she runs cross country for the school. Outside of school she has been doing a traditional Indian dance, called Bharatanatyam, for five years. Keerthana loves the color pink, shopping and spending time with her family and friends. Keerthana fluently speaks both...

Kaylee Turner
Staff Writer

Kaylee Turner

Kaylee Turner is one of the staff writers for The Bobcat Prowl as well as a sophomore student in South Windsor High School. She spends a majority of her freetime at home involved in her hobbies and is always up to date on gaming and television news. Writing is one of her interests and she enjoys English based subjects, which ultimately led to her wanting to be a writer. She’s a very opinionated writer...

Avery Yelle
Staff Writer

Avery Yelle

Avery Yelle is a senior at South Windsor High School and a staff writer for The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper. She plays field hockey for the high school and her club team. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing, watching sports, and hanging out with friends. Next year she plans to major in mechanical engineering.

Jillian Yelle
Staff Writer

Jillian Yelle

Jillian Yelle is a sophomore at South Windsor High School who wants to pursue a career in epidemiology. She is excited to work with The Bobcat Prowl. Outside of school, Jillian is a member of the Girls Varsity lacrosse team as well as a coach for the in-house and juniors lacrosse teams.

Lexi Westbrook
Staff Writer

Lexi Westbrook

Lexi Westbrook is a freshman at South Windsor High School. In her free time she enjoys listening to music, reading, and hanging out with her friends and family. She can’t wait for what joining The Bobcat Prowl has in store for her.

Alec Dziuba
Staff Writer

Alec Dziuba

Senior Alec Dziuba plays football at South Windsor highschool. He likes sports and is involved with coaching youth basketball and track programs around South Windsor.

Hussein Kafel
Staff Writer

Hussein Kafel

Hussein Kafel is a senior who attends South Windsor High School and is Lebanese. When not in school, he enjoys hanging out with friends, family, and watching lots of sports from basketball to soccer. Kafel is also recognized to be a world class player in the South Windsor Rec Basketball league. Hussein also works at the local Stop & Shop here in South Windsor so be sure to pay him a visit.

Alex Ouellet
Staff Writer

Alex Ouellet

Alex Ouellet is a senior at South Windsor high school, and a writer for the Bobcat Prowl. He has been playing soccer since he was 6, and he loves to play all sports. When he isn't found at the field playing soccer, he enjoys spending time with friends or playing video games. Alex is a big food enthusiast and his favorite food is sushi.

Rachel Pospisil
Staff Writer

Rachel Pospisil

Rachel Pospisil is a 17 year old Senior attending South Windsor High School. She aspires to major in nursing and become a certified cosmetologist in the state of Connecticut. Rachel is a team player when running track and field for South Windsor High School and playing on the South Windsor town rec team. Rachel also works at the Dunkin’ in South Windsor.

Jaelyn Salas
Staff Writer

Jaelyn Salas

Jaelyn is a senior at South Windsor High School who played on the girls volleyball team. Salas has aspirations to major in marketing when she continues with furthering her education. She values friends and family and loves a good shopping day.

Brianna Sweeney
Staff Writer

Brianna Sweeney

Brianna Sweeney is a Junior at South Windsor High School. She has been a competitive dancer since she was 8 years old, but when she's not busy dancing, she enjoys roller skating and writing. After high school, Brianna wants to go to college and get a degree in marine biology. This goal was acquired from her love of animals and the ocean. 

Luke Taylor
Staff Writer

Luke Taylor

Senior Luke Taylor plays hockey and lacrosse at South Windsor highschool. Luke is committed to play division two lacrosse at Young Harris College in Georgia. In his free time Luke is either at the gym or working at Dairy Queen.   

Izabella Mckenna
Multimedia Manager

Izabella Mckenna

Bella Mckenna is the Director of Multimedia for The Bobcat Prowl. Bella hopes to inspire people to be who they want to be regardless of what others think. She is a tri-sport athlete playing Football, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track. After high school she plans on following her family's footsteps by joining the service. She is considering joining the Air Force or Coast Guard. She loves listening to Ro...

Maria Verly
Wire Services Manager

Maria Verly

Maria Verly is the Wire Service manager for The Bobcat Prowl student newspaper. She wants to make the newspaper a place where the students of South Windsor High School can go to for information about the school and the town. When she is not writing for the Prowl you can find her out with her friends or looking for new topics for new articles. After high school Maria wants to major in journalism. ...

Maanya Pande
Finance Manager

Maanya Pande

Maanya is a senior at SWHS who is interested in a career in civil rights or law. She enjoys reading & writing and hopes for opportunities to make an impact with her writing. Outside of class, she also enjoys dancing and running. She also runs for the girls cross country team. 

Eli Schwartzman
Web Manager

Eli Schwartzman

Sophmore Eli Schwartzman is the web editor for The Bobcat Prowl. Schwartzman enjoys sports photography, and is regularly attending local sporting events with his camera to take pictures. He has a love for sports, both watching and playing. His favorites to watch are college football and the MLB, while his favorite sport to play is baseball. Outside of school, you can find Eli at the baseball field...

Eliza Blanchfield
Editor

Eliza Blanchfield

Eliza Blanchfield is a South Windsor High School sophomore excited to write for The Bobcat Prowl. During her sophomore year, she looks forward to reporting on the many controversial topics at South Windsor High School. Eliza is an Editor for The Prowl, she will be able to guide new and returning writers while expanding her knowledge of Journalism. In her free time, she enjoys playing girls' volleyball...

Elizabeth Sinclair
Editor

Elizabeth Sinclair

Elizabeth Sinclair is an Editor/Interclass Ambassador of The Bobcat Prowl newspaper at South Windsor High School. She is currently a Sophomore at SWHS. She has been with the prowl for a year now and enjoys writing articles and being part of the team. This summer Elizabeth had a wonderful opportunity to become a scholar at the National Society of High School Scholars. This encourages her to work hard...

Emma Cherubini
Copy Editor

Emma Cherubini

Emma Cherubini is the Copy Editor of The Bobcat Prowl newspaper at South Windsor High School. She can help Staff Writers around the paper correct, tweak, and perfect their articles as well as overviewing articles before they get published to the public site. She wants to major in Journalism when she is older and hopes to go into combat or Political Journalism in the future. During her freetime she can be ...

Aasrith Veerapaneni
Content Editor

Aasrith Veerapaneni

Aasrith Veerapaneni is a senior at South Windsor High School, and the Content Editor for The Bobcat Prowl this year. When not working with the Prowl, he has his fingerprints all over the Music department, being a proud member of Choral Spectrum and Understaffed. He also watches a large variety of different sports, keeping himself up to date with all the stats and facts throughout the year. His passio...

Max Schwartzman
Editor-in-Chief

Max Schwartzman

In addition to his communication with over 60 world leaders, Max Schwartzman is the Editor-in-Chief of South Windsor High School’s award winning newspaper, The Bobcat Prowl. He is strongly committed to keeping our school’s newspaper great, teaching the writers about the art of journalism, and working alongside his incredible staff. In his free time, Max is the author of a book that originated from an...