The official student news site of Athens Drive High School

ATHENS ORACLE
The official student news site of Athens Drive High School

ATHENS ORACLE
The official student news site of Athens Drive High School

ATHENS ORACLE
Rowan Bissett

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Editor

Rowan is a Junior at Athens, and when she is not writing for the Oracle, she’s playing volleyball, participating in clubs, reading a book, or playing with her puppies. She’s excited to continue into her fourth semester of Newspaper!

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PEPI Students pass a ball around with their peers. While everyday, PEPI Students will help with warm-ups, the daily activity will change, creating an exciting curriculum for all students.

Athens students become leaders in PEPI class

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
March 5, 2025
Dodgeball players sit and watch the other games as they wait for their match. There were six teams competing overall, but only one was named victor.

Charity Dodgeball Tournament

Rowan Bissett, Sports Assistant Editor
March 3, 2025
Swimmers dive in fast to start off their event.

Diving deep with the Athens swim team

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
January 30, 2025
Many bins such as these are all over the school. While every classroom has at least one, some having two or three trash cans, recycling bins are not present in every classroom, which means more recyclable material is thrown away. Photo Courtesy of Rowan Bissett

Tracking trash: One week of waste

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
January 29, 2025
Barnes and Nobles highlights commonly banned books such as The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger. These are books banned not just in NC, but all over the country.

Moms for Liberty protests Wake County Schools

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
November 25, 2024
Markoch, or “Doc” as his students and colleagues call him, dives into the works of Beethoven in his class, picking apart the meanings of his pieces.

We offer that here? Little-known classes at Athens Drive

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
November 6, 2024
Hurricanes warm up before their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2022-2023 season. During this season the Canes made it to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Florida Panthers.

The puck drops on the 2025 NHL hockey season on October 8

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
October 17, 2024
Skylar Moore at graduation rehearsal with fellow students.

Senior Spotlight: Skylar Moore

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
June 4, 2024
Students walk around to view peer's STEM projects. Students spent much of the event viewing projects as well as presenting their own.

Athens STEM students display their semester-long work at Athens STEMposium

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
May 22, 2024
Libby O'Leary (left) and Ryan Bartley (right) laugh as they present their project. The sophomore projects were centered around resdesigning the recycling process through new consumer practices.

Athens Drive STEM Students celebrate STEMPosium

Sophie King, Rowan Bissett, Elijah Hoskins, and Farah Al-Rbehat
May 7, 2024
Braxton Whitaker (left), Andrew Lamm (center), and Brayden Lau (right). STEMPosium featured many different groups of presenters.

A Junior STEM project, depicting a school is displayed for viewing. Junior projects focused around building a more sustainable school.

Freshman students present their STEM projects to parents, focused on creating energy portfolios for foreign countries. Many parents and faculty members viewed student presentations.

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Two students present their STEM Project to Michaela Connors, STEM teacher. Connors provided feedback on many ideas shared about making Athens Drive more sustainable for potential implementation.

Daniel Hofman presents his Senior STEM project to a classroom of attendees. Seniors spent a semester in STEM Capstone class, planning out a project to provide local solutions to an environmental issue.

Members of the Athens cross country team at summer cross country camp held in the mountains where they run different locations, meet NC state coaches, and do drills and conditioning. Camps like these are ways that runner for cross country or track stay in shape over summer. Photo provided by Krister Sjoblad.

Athens Track and Field; last push to Regionals as finish line comes into view

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
May 1, 2024
The Sophomore Slump

The Sophomore Slump

Rowan Bissett and Elijah Hoskins
April 24, 2024

Animals of Athens Drive

Brady Jones, Zane Perryman, James Crumpler, Rowan Bissett, and Ethan Adams
April 19, 2024
Photo of the NCFC soccer club at the Puma Kings Cup in Charlotte, NC. The tournament was from February 3-4 and was a success for the team

Balancing travel sports and school; can it be done?

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
April 3, 2024
The Super Bowl is the number one sporting event in the United States and preparation for it's event spans many weeks. It has been common practice to make flyers and posters counting down to the game.

The Super Bowl touches down on February 11, 2024

Rowan Bissett, Staff Writer
February 15, 2024
Athens Drive flag football team preparing for their first tournament. During practice the team utilizes two fields and splits up into offensive groups and defensive groups.

Women’s flag football comes “rushing” into Athens Drive

Taylor Malloy, Sophie King, Rowan Bissett, Brady Jones, and James Crumpler
January 26, 2024
Camila Pierce signing with MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] with her Coach, Shane Barry.

Senior Spotlight: Camila Pierce

Rowan Bissett, Staff Writer
June 2, 2023
Principal Mares gives a speech at the Senior breakfast on April 27. In his speech, he expressed his admiration of the Athens seniors and how they will be missed once they go their separate ways.

Mares announces his retirement after six years

Rowan Bissett, Staff Writer
May 16, 2023
Athens 4H club donation box located in Student services, five items donated counts for one service hour.

Athens clubs; driving to help the community

Rowan Bissett, Staff Writer
May 5, 2023
The cast take their final bows at the end of the show. The pit is seen as they play off the last song.

Athens Drive Suessical 2023 Photo Gallery

Lezly Gandiaga-Martinez, Erin McNeese, Elijah Hoskins, and Rowan Bissett
April 27, 2023
Women's JV soccer gathers in a huddle to discuss their game strategy.

Athens Drive photographs men’s tennis, track, and women’s soccer behind the scenes

Taylor Malloy, Grace Woodall, Rowan Bissett, and Mariah Hatcher
March 17, 2023
Athens varsity cheer team holding up their state champions banner after coming in 1st.

Athens Cheer comes out on top at States

Rowan Bissett, Staff Writer
March 6, 2023
Poster made by the BBSU club at Athens detailing the different spirit days to celebrate BHM.

Athens driving black excellence

Taylor Malloy, Ethan Adams, Rowan Bissett, and Hailey Nguyen
February 15, 2023
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