Q: How long have you been teaching at West and in general?
A: Fourteen years at West and 41 years of teaching. Head basketball coaching for 37 years and head track coaching for five years. I...
“My favorite sport to watch is football because there is a lot of action, and I have been a Bears fan all of my life. I like to watch the Bears specifically, otherwise I like watching people hit each...
What is your best piece of advice in general?
“Give your best so you never look back on it and think there was more you could have done. In the past in some sports I’ve played there has been times...
"I love languages and I love learning new languages still. I want to start German in the summer. I also love traveling, but I can't travel right now, so I hope to get back to it soon. I just love going...
How would you spend your last day on Earth if the world was ending?
“First, I would get in a Ferrari. I am going to race all around, then I will hit a fat ramp and do a spiral, land, flip, probably...
“One of my favorite memories was at my church camp in Ames when my friends and I left our cabins during the night and played games outside until 5 a.m."
-sophomore Alex Solbrig
Q: What are you proudest of?
"Getting better at basketball. In middle school, when I first started, I wasn’t that good. Now I’m better."
-junior Roxy Diaz
Mia Nelson is a junior at West and has been on the Diamond Dancers Dance Team since she was a sophomore. She has recently been chosen to be the first dance team captain for the 2018-2019 school year.
What...
“Wrestling means a lot to me because it helped me lose weight and made me quicker and also more tough. At times it can be really tough with conditioning and constantly moving, but it’s all worth it...
“I have a bucket list that I made in college at some point. I want to travel the world, and buy someone else's groceries. As a teacher, I want to be the type of teacher a student remembers for the...
“I studied abroad my senior year at St. Ambrose during the winter for a three week span in Cuenca, Ecuador. I stayed with a host family for those three weeks. I fulfilled one of my education requirements...
Brandon Yoder is the new boys tennis coach and has taught science for six years at West.
Yoder was the freshman football assistant coach for three years, but once he started graduate school he stepped...
![“I’m always very genuine with people. I will tell you what I am thinking, what I am feeling, and what I think of you. [I do this] because people have a tendency to stop listening to you when they think you’re full of crap. In turn, I want everyone else to be as genuine as they can back to me,” Yoder said. “I think that is an important level of respect that I like to have with not just my students, but also with my athletes and colleagues.”](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DSC_0152-900x600.jpg)
