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, Editor-in-Chief

Rowan is a Senior at Athens Drive and one of the co editors-in-chief. When she is not writing for the Oracle, she’s playing volleyball, participating in clubs, reading a book, or playing with her many pets. She’s excited to continue into her fifth and sixth semester of Newspaper!

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Photo from a walk-out. Athens Drive held their school walkout on September 5th. Original public domain image from Flickr.

Facing a Crisis: Wake county school board and students react to influx of gun violence

Elijah Hoskins and Rowan Bissett
October 7, 2025
Elijah Hoskins has two screens open, juggling both his CommonApp profile and school work. Many other seniors at Athens and all over the country struggle with making sure that neither college application nor school work falls behind.

From one deadline to the next: Athens students’ worries about college applications

Rowan Bissett, Editor-in-Chief
September 29, 2025
Athens Senior Athletes: committing to a new chapter

Athens Senior Athletes: committing to a new chapter

Rowan Bissett and Nathan Pitchford
June 11, 2025
Moscatello sings solo on stage. Ursula (Moscatello’s character) has three songs: “Poor Unfortunate Souls”, “I Want the Good Times Back” and “Daddy’s Little Angel.”

Senior Spotlight: Enzo Moscatello, a shooting star

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
June 11, 2025
Athens coaches; supporting teams from the sideline

Athens coaches; supporting teams from the sideline

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
June 4, 2025
Canes fans spin their towels-a universal playoff tradition across the NHL-frantically as the Canes come out to start the game. Lenovo Center, the home of the Hurricanes is known as the “Loudest House in the NHL” and are top ranked in terms of fans energy.

Hurricanes win against Capitals to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
May 20, 2025
Note: From Wayne Gretzky for New York Rangers (1. oktober 2007) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/

[Photo] Historic Sports Trades

March 25, 2025
Luka Doncic sports number 77 during his time with the Dallas Mavericks. He has kept his number throughout the trade with the Lakers. [Luka Doncic] by [Erik Drost] is licensed under [Attribution 2.0]

Doncic-Davis trade shocks NBA fans nationwide

Rowan Bissett, Assistant Sports Editor
April 7, 2025
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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