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The current state of the soccer field before construction.

Expanding to Regulation

Will Earnest, Reporter October 31, 2024

More construction, but will it be ready in time? The West High boys and girls soccer teams are getting a new field, completely decked out in turf and expanded to comply with regulation size for IHSAA soccer....

Aiden James '28 plays the bass during the concert in his costume.

A Chilling Concert

Raegan Ware, Reporter October 23, 2024

Halloween is right around the corner and many West High students are starting to get into the spooky spirit. Though, one group in particular got to put their costumes on early. The West Orchestra performed...

HotWorx has been around since 2017 and the owner of Hotworx is Stephen P. Smith.

More Workout, Less Time!

Addison Aleksiejczyk, Editor-in-chief September 19, 2024

Looking to elevate your fitness journey? Well HotWorx will do just that in a shorter period of time. It offers its members unlimited, 24 hour access to a variety of virtually instructed infrared sauna...

ELA Mrs. Ray’s 9th grade advisory class has mixed emotions on the early two hour early start

Freshman Frenzy

Reiggan Molloy, Reporter September 18, 2024

August 23, at 8:30 am freshman began flooding the doors of West High School. Instead of an early out like last year, the class of 2028 were able to tour the building and have an earlier start rather than...

Social studies teacher Christine Coyne-Logan hypes up the crowd at the first pep rally of the year.

Spirit in the Nest

Gracie Sade, Reporter September 18, 2024

Go Falcons Go! is what we said when we sent off our boys in red, filled with confidence and school spirit. Before the kick off ever went underway, we held a prep rally for our seniors, football teams,...

The new field is going to resemble the one at Brady Street with some minor changes like there only being one place for fans/parents to sit, and it being smaller due to not having a running track connected to it.

New turf

September 13, 2024

The Davenport West soccer team has wanted a turf field for a very long time and after many years they are finally getting what they have always wanted. Some people might think that the field will be for...

The student section, dressed in neon, join the cheerleaders to do The Falcon Train cheer.

Student Section Spirit

Raegan Ware, Reporter September 13, 2024

“Seniors in the front, freshmen in the back!” Is one of the most common rules heard within the West student section. Whether you're attending a football, volleyball, or basketball game you're bound...

The West High lunchroom during C lunch. Lunch is separated into four lunch periods: A, B, C and D.

Chaos in the Lunchroom

Nolan Collins September 13, 2024

It’s the middle of the day, at the start of lunch. Students enter in droves, some pushing through the line to get their food as fast as possible, others not even bothering to try. It’s a crowded, chaotic,...

Coach Israel Taylor looks on as his players run a wide receiver drill. This is his first year of coaching after graduating from St. Ambrose.

A Change in Culture

Will Earnest, Reporter September 11, 2024

New changes, different outcome? The West High Football team hired four new varsity football coaches for the 2024 season. After a 5-4 record and barely missing the playoffs last season, the team hopes these...

Mr. Gillespie is new to West and to teaching, but is not new to working on school campuses. Before teaching, he worked in schools as a behavior interventionist. He went to college

New Falcons

There are many new staff members this year at Davenport West High School, one being Molly Quinn, the new ELA teacher. Even though this is her first year at West this is definitely not her first year teaching....

“My advice to students is get as involved as you can, because when you get to be an upperclassman, and you do end up getting involved, you're gonna look back and be like, wow, people have done this for four years and I just now started and you're gonna regret it,” said Izzy Martinez.

Dedication Goes a Long Way

Makenna Burt, Reporter November 22, 2022

Upperclassmen always tell you to get involved in the school but how do people manage it all? Senior Izzy Martinez took the advice of those upperclassmen and became very involved and does not regret it....

Mr. Flaherty and Mr. Baldry sit and play outside of Flaherty’s classroom during the second to third block passing time. “[We] decided to do something goofy that gets people’s attention and bring it to the hunger drive, I guess,” Baldry said.

Getting loud

Morgan Ware, Print Editor October 21, 2022

The performance of a lifetime by Baldry’s Big Brass Band is happening right here in our very own West High School, during passing time in the social studies hallway. A beautiful concert of chaotic noise...

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