The mission of The Bobcat Times is to connect students with their school and community through quality news reporting.
The Bobcat Times is published by students in the Journalism class at Central High School and does not necessarily represent the opinions of all students, teachers, or other faculty members.
Mrs. Andrea Keck Turner – Newspaper Adviser
andrea.turner@knoxschools.org
Excited to be continuing the CHS Journalism/Newspaper program for the 2023-2024 school year, Mrs. Turner looks forward to encouraging and supporting her staff in all of their journalistic endeavors. Outside of school, she enjoys rock climbing, knitting, biking and playing with her puggle, Marley.
Seniors:
| Kate Taylor-Editor-In-Chief |
| Kate Taylor is a senior who is involved in National Honor Society and theater. This year she is NHS historian. Outside of school, she loves to hang out with her friends and family. This is her 2nd semester on staff with the newspaper. She can’t wait to learn even more about journalism and be editor-in-chief! |
Sophomores:
| Alivia Clouse | Kaitlyn King- News Editor | Dejay Merchant-Sports Editor |
| Alivia is a sophomore who is getting involved with wrestling, playing guitar, and pottery. Outside of school she loves to go hunting and fishing as well as read books and sometimes write them. This is her first time with the newspaper and shes looking forward to exploring the different types of reporting and the opportunities. | Kaitlyn is a sophomore who enjoys spending her time with her family and friends. She prioritizes her academics and other people. She likes Drake, Lil Wayne, and scary movies. She has 3 pets, a cat named Tazz, a cat named Sky, and a dog named Bear. | DeJay Merchant is a sophomore who is trying to reach his goal of becoming a master engineer. He spends his free time working and trying to keep good grades so he can go to his dream school. |
| Mallory O’Dell-Entertainment Editor | Asher Warwick |
| Mallory is a sophomore who is a cheerleader, ambassador and is involved in Younglife. Outside of school, she is either traveling, at the lake, watching baseball, cheering, or hanging out with her friends. This is her first semester on staff and she excited to learn more about being a journalist. | Asher Warwick is a sophomore that is involved in the Marching Band and Concert Band at Central High School. Outside of school he enjoys taking care of fish and practicing his instruments. This is his 1st semester on staff with journalism and is excited to explore new opportunities. |
Freshman:
| Angela Asumpta | Scout Gilreath | Clover Desmarais |
| Angela is a freshman at Central High who is set to her goals. Outside of school, she’s barely out with others but only out with nature and ready to explore. Her idea of music is something that keeps her up and running, full of energy ready to be something she’s been dreaming about since she was a child. Crime cases and the thought of having lots of money runs through her mind constantly, or she would say “Religiously”. Writing is one of her hobbies that also keeps her mind distracted from the real world, so is reading. Reading, music, and writing is very meaningful to her. | Scout is a freshman who is involved in tumbling, tennis and younglife. Outside of school she loves to hangout with her friends, go to church and hangout with her boyfriend. Her family and god are her #1’s but she also loves her pet cat Juni and her betta fish Joe. | Clover Desmarais she is 15 and she was born on May 1st. Clover is in 9th grade she loves animals and likes to hang out with friends and family. |
| Spencer Lore | Skyla Lovell- Sports Editor | Scarlett Coppock |
| Spencer is a freshman who is involved in soccer, youth, and hanging out with friends.Outside of school he loves to spend time with family and friends. He is looking forward to play soccer with his brother for CHS this year. | Skyla is a Freshman on the Lady bobcat Volleyball team. She loves to be with friends and family and help her community whenever. Skyla loves her dog and taking him on walks, he is a pit bull and is so sweet and kind. Skyla hopes to become an Ultrasound technician when she graduates. She is excited to be apart of the Bobcat Times. | Scarlett is a freshman who is involved in skating, volleyball, and hunting outside of school she goes to the skating rink, shes always up to hang out after school or on the weekends. This is her 1st semester in journalism 1 and she looks forward to going to college and meeting new people. |
| Peyton Boone | Lindasiah Clegg | Davion Laber |
| Peyton is a freshman who is involved with softball and highly involved with the church, Faith Promise North Knox campus and Young life. Outside of school, she loves to try new things. This is my first time on the News paper, I’m super exited to get to meet new people and get better on my communication skills. | Lindasiah is a freshman who doesn’t really do sports but she used to run track for a few years, and then stopped liking it.She really don’t have any hobbies she just goes to school and home sometimes she goes to her cousins house.She looks forward to getting done with school. | I am Daivon I am a Freshman I am calm and cool. |
| Nevae Morrow | Jackson Green | Olivia Roper- Opinion Editor |
| Nevae Morrow is a fresman at Central HIghschool. She loves to dance and is a dancer at Dancers Studio on Sutherland. She has danced since she was three, and has danced ever since. Nevae also loves animals, she has a dog named Boi-Boi, who she met at the age 2. She loves food, people, is an energetic person and loves to interact with random people. | Jackson is a freshman at Central High School. He loves writing, and all things ELA. He also loves listening to music, particularly country music. in his free time he likes to perfect his writing by following writing prompts online. Green is on the newspaper staff for the first time and looks forward to learning how to write better as a journalist | Olivia Roper is a freshmen who loves Family, church, and country music. Out of school she plays games with her brother and wrestles with her dad. This is her first semester of high school and shes excited for the future. |
| Jazmine Mork | Kaiya Somirs-Entertainment Editor | Amelia Rodriguez |
| Jazmine Mork loves watching tiktok and loves the pool because she loves being out side and loves tryna tan. And she loves doing things outside because its fun . And she loves watching tiktok because its entertaining and very fun . And has good music taste and she just loves it so much. | Kaiya is a freshman whose hobbies include: soccer, art, photography and film-making. She is an artist with her own business and loves scary movies. She’s very excited about being on the newspaper and can’t wait to write new articles. | Amelia is a freshman who is involved in volleyball and softball. Outside of school, Amelia loves to spend time with her animals, sleep, and go to friends houses. Amelia is looking forward to reading other newspaper articles and learning about other people. |
| Madelynn Silcox | Isabella Norsworthy | Edward Wassman |
| Madelynn Silcox is a freshmen who loves all things theater. She is a part of Bobcat Company where she is excited to perform in “The Addams Family: Musical” later this May. She has been heavily involved in plays during her middle school years at Gresham Middle School. She played Sebastian her eighth grade year in “The Little Mermaid Jr.” and had played a few minor roles in plays previously. This is her very 1st semester on the staff and she looks forward to all the new opportunities offered to her this year. | Isabella is a quiet Freshman inside of school. However, outside of school, she is very outgoing and talkative. She loves watching movies, reading, baking, and is involved in Fairview Baptist Church. She looks forward to all the exciting future high school opportunities. | Edward is a freshman who likes video games and likes goofy comedy. Normally he likes to talk about the video games he plays. |
| Dakarii Williamson | Luke Vickers | Kassidy Wilson |
| Dakarii is a freshman who loves music and robotics English and art. Outside of school she likes to listen to her music on full blast hanging out with her girlfriend and sleeping. she looks forward to getting more sleep and listening to music more | Luke is a freshman who loves to play soccer. | Kassidy Wilson is Freshman and a softball player here at Central. She is involved with Faith promise and the newspaper. She looks forward to growing here at Central. |
| Christopher “Topher” Winstead | Dina Banga- News Editor | Manuel Jimenez-Tomas |
| Christopher “Topher” Winstead is like no other kid he wakes up in the morning and goes to school. His favorite things are sleeping and listening and playing music. From playing guitar to listening/collecting to records he loves he loves putting a smile on a person’s face. He is a goof by nature and normally doesn’t care what people think or talk about him. And he will always say be yourself no matter what people say, because “life is short and screw it.” | Dina Banga is a freshman here at Central High. Though on some of her afternoons are empty, she still likes to keep her body up to date by going on a frequent 2 mile run, jogging at Victor Ashe, or even frolicking with her new family addition, Kali the Lab. She first encountered Journalism when she joined her summer camp’s newspaper in 2018. It wasn’t till her eighth grade year at Gresham Middle that she was recognized. That one Narrative free write opened a whole lot more doors for her in the Journalism world. She hopes to be on the Bobcat Times for her remaining 3 years at Central High. | Manuel, a young individual who cherishes the diverse experiences life presents. Having grown up in a multicultural household, I am greatly influenced by my soccer player and the values it instilled in me. These cultural roots fuel my admiration for skill, shooting , and position.soccer , in particular, plays a central role in my life. I find solace in creating visual representations of my thoughts and emotions, allowing me to express myself beyond the confines of words. Whether it is through play, talking to my team, showing off my skill, Soccer is an integral part of Manuel ideas. When Manual does not play soccer he is at home being lazy and just sleeps all day and will sometimes just play Fifa. |
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