Spotlight on Seniors: Oakland-Craig’s Shelby Greve

February 12, 2015 Leave a comment


1. Please list your family members.
 Parents Roy, Leslie and siblings Dustin Greve, Makayla Anderson.
2. How does it feel to be a senior?
Being a senior feels great! But after Christmas break you wish you could go back to freshman year and do it all over again. The 4 years your in high school you want it to go by slow so you can enjoy it! Being a senior is a great thing so you can see where you go in the future after you graduate! Enjoy your high school days. Especially your senior year.
3. What have been your favorite classes throughout school?
My favorite classes throughout high school would have to be any science class with Mrs. Penke. They are enjoyable and she is a fun teacher to have. You learn a lot just by listening because she isn’t one of the boring teachers. I love her classes because i love learning about the body, your bones and everything that can happen to your body that I had no clue could even happen. She’s a great teacher to have at Oakland-Craig!
4. What activities do you participate in school?
The activities I participate in school are volleyball (4 years) Wrestling student manager (4 years) Track (1 year) and outside of school for sports I do Gymnastics (12 years)
5. Whom, among all of your teachers through the years, have been your biggest influencers? What did you learn from them that has made you who you are?
I really can’t name any teacher that has influenced me the most, because every teacher here at Oakland-Craig has pushed me and pushed me to do my best in high school to make it far in life after i graduate! So, every teacher has influenced me a lot! I’ve learned to be myself, wherever and whoever I’m with. Don’t try to be any one you aren’t and live your life to the fullest!
6. How has your family helped and influenced you in your life?
My mom Leslie Greve, my sister Makayla Anderson and my cousin Cheri Johansen have influenced me a ton in my life. Pushing and pushing me to get good grades , and have fun while I’m at it! If it weren’t for those 3  I don’t know where I’d be in high school! I’m passing all my classes because they help me so much and prepare me for everything that will come out me in my future! They are the best and I’m glad I have a family I count on!
7. What do you and your friends do for fun?
My friends and I do a lot of things. Well. All my friends are in college now, but I still see them! Trishtian McNeill is one of my best friends. We go basically everywhere with each other! We drive around, shop, go to movies, ride around on the four wheeler or on the dirt bikes and be a little bit of rebels at some points, or if we are both feeling lazy we just sit around the house, make bunch of pizzas and watch movies at her house or mine, because we both consider each other family!
8. What have been some of your favorite moments in school?
I have had so many favorite moments in school that they hard to name. But, it would be watching my friends Nick Arlt and Bryce Uhing wrestle at State and any other meet and wrestle their hearts out, or in volleyball when we broke our school record for winning 20 games.
9. What are your plans after you graduate from high school?
My plans after I graduate are going to Metropolitan Community College and get my gen-eds out of the way and transfer to College of Saint Mary’s and get my Occupational Therapist degree and go on from there!
10. How excited were you to be the queen of the winter dance? What was it like to be crowned?
Being crowned at the winter dance was such a great feeling! I almost started crying because I was filled with joy!  No one from Craig has ever really been crowned at any dance beside Breanna McNeill! So it was a blessing! Being crowned with my best friend basically my brother Justin Smith was the best part of the night! We’ve been friends since pre-school and it was the best to be Queen with him! It was a great way to end my senior year that’s for sure! I’ll cherish this moment forever!
11. Once you graduate, what do you think you will miss the most about school?
When I graduate I’ll miss everything about Oakland-Craig. How small it is. My friends for sure and Cole Mitchell singing in the hallways! I’ll miss the teachers being so helpful and caring and wanting to help me, whenever I need help! I’ll miss helping the wrestling team and the volleyball team!
Shelby Greve

Shelby Greve

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Spotlight on O-C Senior Heather Riedy

December 9, 2014 1 Comment


Kat Country Hub asked Oakland-Craig High School Senior Heather Riedy a few questions on her years in school and what she is hoping her future will hold. Please read below and share in Heather’s journey!

1. Where do you live?
 876 County Road 10, Oakland, NE.
2. Have you attended Oakland-Craig school from kindergarten? If not, where else have you attended school? And, what grades.
No, I went to school in Sioux City from kindergarten to sixth grade, and moved to Oakland in seventh grade.
3. Who is your favorite teacher at O-C and why?
My calculus teacher Mr. Rexroad because he taught me a lot of math stuff.
4. How do you feel being a senior?
Like Jean Valjean from Les Miserables before he broke his parole, like something new is right around the corner.
5. What are some of your favorite school memories, from elementary too?
All the weird conversations during cross country practice and the times my class got told how bad we are at fundraising.
6. Please list your family members.
My parents, Ed and Val, and my sisters, Ashley and Kendra.
7. What activities have you been involved in during high school?
Cross country, track, student council, quiz bowl, national honor society, one acts, speech, TEAMS and O-C Club.
8. What do you and your friends enjoy doing when not in school?
Having really deep conversations about really deep things. Sometimes we also read really deep books and talk about how really deep they are.
9. What is your favorite class?
Government, I love having really deep conversations with Mr. Lierman.
10. Are you taking any college classes?
 My calculus class is straight out of the UNL syllabus, but it’s not for college credit, and my English class is dual-credit.
11. What are your plans after high school?
Go to Harvard, drop out a few credits short of graduation, move to Hollywod and make it big in the movie industry.
12. Where do you hope to be five years from now?
In Hollywood, laughing at everyone who said I wouldn’t make it there.
13. What is a dream you hope to accomplish after graduating?

Heather Riedy

Heather Riedy

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Spotlight on Seniors at Lyons-Decatur Northeast: First, Darcey Simonsen

October 1, 2014 Leave a comment


Kat Country Hub will be introducing seniors from Lyons-Decatur Northeast throughout the school year. We begin with Darcey Simonsen.

Darcey Simonsen

Darcey Simonsen

How does if feel to be starting your senior year of high school?

I’m excited to start but, disappointed it’s going to be over soon.

 

What activities do you participate in at school?

I am in volleyball, basketball, track, dance, drama, FFA, FBLA.

 

 

What is your favorite class in school?

My favorite class would have to be welding because it is something different that I have never done before.

 

Who, among all of your teachers through the years, have been your biggest influencers? What did you learn from them that has made you who you are?

Mr. Cronin was our principal, just left last year. He taught me to push myself to be great. He sees the potential I have and has told me over and over and over, I can do great things. I will never forget our conversations or the skills he has taught me. Of course you can’t forget the fun times too.

 

 

What have been some of your favorite moments in school?

My favorite moments in school have been the sports of course. But, I couldn’t ask for better people to be with. Homecoming week and all the things we do as a school wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for the people we have at our school.

 

 

Are you planning for college? Getting ready by filling out scholarship applications?

I plan on going to college. I have started filling out applications and such.

 

 

Where are you going to college? Do you know what you want to be?

I don’t know where I am going but, I plan on playing sports while in college. So far I am set on majoring in Criminal Justice.

 

  1. I am sure you want to enjoy every moment of high school, what do you look forward to the most?

I can’t say I look forward to anything because I don’t know if I want it to end just yet. I am looking forward to track season definitely though. It’s because it’s what I love to do.

 

 

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