2019-2020 Staff
Grant Mattingly
Staff Reporter
Grant Mattingly is a senior at Woodford County High School and this is his first year on The Jacket Journal. He played basketball his freshman year and has been skateboarding for around 7-8 years now....
Will Fisher
Staff Reporter
Will Fisher is a senior at WCHS and is a part of the high school swim and lacrosse team. He has been on the swim team for four years and the lacrosse team for three. He is very passionate about both teams...
Jeri Ireland
Staff Reporter
Jeri Ireland is a freshman at Woodford County High School. This is her first year as a staff reporter on The Jacket Journal. Jeri started off her freshman year at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky,...
Dakota Hobbs
Staff Reporter
Dakota Hobbs is a freshman at Woodford County High School. This is Dakota's first year as a staff reporter. Dakota likes to play football and enjoys hanging out with his friends. Dakota also likes to listen...
Will Dowdell
Staff Reporter
Will Dowdell is a sophomore at Woodford County High School. This is his first year on The Jacket Journal and he is excited to see where it takes him. He enjoys being with his friends and family and playing...
Michaela Agee
Staff Reporter
Michaela Agee is a member of the Sophomore class at WCHS. This is her first year on The Jacket Journal staff. She spends a lot of her time managing the WCHS volleyball team. Michaela, along with some of he...
Frakes, Abby
Staff Reporter
Abby is a senior at WCHS. This is her second year on The Jacket Journal staff and she couldn't be more excited to be back! She had a huge mix of opinion and review articles from last year, but this year...
Nate Wells
Staff Reporter
This is Nate Wells' first year on The Jacket Journal. He is a sophomore at WCHS and a member of the Woodford County Soccer Team. He enjoys hanging out with friends, playing video games, and listening to...
Tyler Moskovitz
Staff Reporter
Tyler Moskovitz is a freshman at Woodford County High School and this is his first year on The Jacket Journal staff. He likes to play soccer and has been doing so for 8 years. Tyler also enjoys watching...
Olivia Smith
Staff Reporter
Olivia Smith is a sophomore at WCHS. She enjoys playing volleyball and hanging out with friends and family. Olivia is very involved with her church group and teaches a two-year-olds class every Sunday...
Carter Hays
Staff Reporter
Carter Hays is a senior at WCHS, and seeing as this is her first year of the Jacket Journal team, she is ecstatic to share her ideas and develop her abilities as a writer alongside her peers. Carter enjoys...
Dorrah Martin
Staff Reporter
Dorrah Martin is a junior at WCHS. This is her first year on The Jacket Journal as a staff reporter. This year marks Dorrah's third year on the WCHS soccer team and her sixth year on a local club team....
Caleb Pogorzelski
Staff Reporter
Caleb Pogorzelski is a senior at WCHS and he loves music--everything from trap metal to lo-fi, he loves to listen, write, and sing music. Besides music, Caleb loves to skateboard, play video games, and...
Lauren Watercutter
Staff Reporter
Lauren Watercutter is a senior at WCHS. This is Lauren's first year on The Jacket Journal staff. She wishes to obtain an engineering degree in hopes of becoming a mechanical engineer, though she is undecided...
Aydin Khosrowshahi
Staff Reporter
Aydin Khosrowshahi is a sophomore at Woodford County High School. This is his first year in Digital Journalism, and he's interested to see where the class will take him in the community. When he's not...
Victoria Korchuk
Staff Reporter
Victoria Korchuk is a freshman at Woodford County High School. This is her first year on The Jacket Journal. She loves to read all kinds of books and can spend hours reading. She plays the violin in the...
Alyssa Hysell
Staff Reporter
Alyssa Hysell is a junior at WCHS and this is her first year being a part of The Jacket Journal staff. Alyssa loves being active within her school as she is a part of the girls basketball team and is a...
Afton Skeeters
Staff Reporter
Afton Skeeters is a freshman and this is her first year on The Jacket Journal. In her free time, Afton trains with the Woodford Theatre Young Artists. She has taken piano lessons for five years and says...
Nathan Jackson
Staff Reporter
Nathan Jackson is a junior this year at WCHS. This is his first year working for The Jacket Journal. Nathan enjoys photography and learning new things. He often spends his time on the weekends camping...
Luna Wu
Staff Reporter
Luna Wu is a freshman at Woodford County High School. This will be her first year on The Jacket Journal. She moved to Kentucky with her family when she was five but was originally born in Guangzhou, China....
Olivia DeVore
Staff Reporter
Olivia DeVore is a sophomore at Woodford County High School. This is her first year on The Jacket Journal, and she is very excited to be working alongside her friends. Olivia enjoys spending time with...
Amariah Reed
Staff Reporter
Amariah Reed is a sophomore at WCHS. This is her first year on The Jacket Journal staff. Amariah was a gymnast for seven years and still enjoys doing tumbling. This is Amariah's second year doing Track...
Justice Mudd
Staff Reporter
Justice Mudd is a sophomore at Woodford County High School; it is her first year as a Staff Reporter for The Jacket Journal, and it is her second year playing for the Woodford County High School volleyball...
Emma Duggan
Staff Reporter
Emma Duggan is a freshman here at WCHS! This is her first year in The Jacket Journal and she is ecstatic, this will be a new experience for Emma and she couldn't be more pleased! Emma enjoys dancing, singing,...
Emma Hayes
Staff Reporter
Emma Hayes is a sophomore at Woodford County High School and this is her first year as a staff reporter for The Jacket Journal. This is her second year joining the cross country team since she enjoys running....
Jamie Hobbs
Staff Reporter
Jamie is a junior here at WCHS. This is her second year on The Jacket Journal. Jamie loves to write and plans to use her skills from this class to fulfill her dreams of becoming a crisis journalist after...
Anna Ward
Staff Reporter
Anna is a junior at Woodford County High School. This is her second year writing for The Jacket Journal. She is ecstatic to better her skills as a journalist. In her free time, you can find her cruising...
Lily Savage
Staff Reporter
Lily Savage is a sophomore this year at WCHS, and this is her second year with The Jacket Journal. She hopes to learn as much as possible about writing, editing, and photography from her peers and teachers....
Blake Heller
Staff Reporter
Blake Heller is a sophomore and it's his second year on The Jacket Journal staff. He's always liked hanging out with friends and family, but he loves a civil and healthy two-way debate no matter what the...
Brooke Jones
Staff Reporter
This is Brooke's fourth year of working with The Jacket Journal. She is a senior at WCHS and is thrilled to be in her last year! She loves going to the coffee shop and drinking Starbucks. She enjoys taking...
CJ Jenkins
Staff Reporter
CJ Jenkins is a junior at WCHS. This is her second year of participating in Digital Journalism. Her favorite things are playing games, drawing, anime, and music. CJ will be glad to talk about any anime...
Catie Sims
Staff Reporter
Her full name is Catherine, but she goes by Catie. She's a sophomore this year at WCHS and is excited for her second year on The Jacket Journal staff. She loves everything writing; news, and fiction. Sarcastic?...
Ashlyn Martin
Staff Reporter
Ashlyn Martin is a senior at WCHS and this is her second year writing for The Jacket Journal. She finds The Jacket Journal to be a great outlet for her to express herself and share her writing with the ...
Kristen Bailey
Staff Reporter
Kristen Bailey is a sophomore at Woodford County High School and this is her second year as a staff member on The Jacket Journal. Kristen is a competitive dancer at Jane's School of Dance and this will...
Kennedy Kruse
Staff Reporter
Kennedy Kruse is a Senior at WCHS, and this is her second year on The Jacket Journal staff. She enjoys writing, drawing, and singing, and she loves anything and everything that revolves around the arts....
Kayla Hadley
Staff Reporter
Kayla is very excited to be learning and getting more involved with The Jacket Journal. This is Kayla's second year on the Woodford County Women's Soccer team. Kayla loves being around her friends and...
Hillary Ocampo
Staff Reporter
Hillary Ocampo is a junior at Woodford County High School; this is her third year with The Jacket Journal and she plans to continue reporting throughout high school. Outside of school, she rides horses...
Addison Kerr
Staff Reporter
This is Addison Kerr's second year on The Jacket Journal. She is a sophomore at Woodford County High School and a member of the Woodford County Softball Team. Addison was a competitive dancer for 13 years...
Arissa Keith
Staff Reporter
Arissa Keith is a sophomore this year at WCHS. This is her second year on The Jacket Journal staff, and she is very excited to jump back in. This is also her second year doing WCHS Track & Field and...
MaQuoia Bernabe
Staff Reporter
MaQuoia Bernabe is a senior at Woodford County High School. She is going into her fourth and last year writing for The Jacket Journal. When she's not buried in homework, she is taking part in the Woodford...
Tanyea Ramirez
Staff Reporter
Tanyea Ramirez is a senior at WCHS and this is her fourth year writing for The Jacket Journal. When she is not writing for the paper, she is taking part in Woodford County's Young Life organization. She...
Brayden Miller
Brayden is just baller. Truly baller. If you see Brayden on your block you should challenge him to a b-ball game; he'll utterly destroy you.
Ginny Gregory
Editor, Staff Reporter
Ginny Gregory is a senior at WCHS this year (2019-2020) and this is her second year on The Jacket Journal staff and second year as an editor. Ginny wants to pursue a career in concert photography and loves...
Jackson Heller
Editor, Staff Reporter
Jackson is a Senior and loves music. From rock to alternative, he likes listening, playing, and writing music. Outside of that, he enjoys talking politics and engaging in civil and productive discourse....
Graham Brown
Staff Editor
This is Graham's second year on The Jacket Journal staff and third year at Woodford County High School. He enjoys studying languages, reading, and learning about history and architecture. Graham is excited...
Kaitlyn Toy
Editor, Staff Reporter
Kaitlyn Toy is a senior at WCHS. She loves to write, read, and play video games. This is Kaitlyn's third year on The Jacket Journal team. Kaitlyn is responsible for the Toying with Games series and published...
Catie Heerman
Editor and Staff Reporter
Catie Heerman is a senior at Woodford County High School. In her spare time, she enjoys doing makeup, shopping, traveling and playing lacrosse. This is her fourth and final year writing for The Jacket...