The tie in elections for next year’s junior class president was all sophomore Natalie Vontress needed to decide to push harder for votes. On the day of elections, May 14, Vontress, along with other students running for student council positions in their next year’s class, created and posted stickers, posters and slogans around the school to gather votes.

“I felt qualified to do it,” Vontress said. “I’m a pretty good student and I’m in a student leadership program at my church, NHS and I went to a leadership program last summer.”

For Vontress, it was stressful to find out that she had tied Lindsay Lucero tied with 65 votes each. Vontress remembered being a bit upset because when she asked people to vote, they would say “I’m not feeling well or don’t want to do it today”, and all Vontress could think was “if only they were feeling better”. In response, the next day Vontress changed her campaigning stickers and asked more people to vote for her which, in the end, worked.

“I’m extremely happy that I won,” Vontress said. “Everyone was telling me I could do it.”

The junior class president re-elections took place the following day. The winners for next year’s class representatives are as followed:

Student Body:

Pres: Ashley Meister

VP: Emma Hall

Sec: Chris Smith

Treas: Kyle Dragulski

Parliamentarian: Lindsay Lucero

Senior Class:

Pres: Caleb Jones

VP: Mikayla Ballard

Sec: Casey McKean

Treas: Amanda Lanter

Chair: Kelsey Rombach

Junior Class:

Pres: Natalie Vontress

VP: Aubrey Copeland

Sec: Christian Armistead

Treas: Taaj Bakari

Sophomore Class:

Pres: Parker Brown

VP: Bailey Campbell

Sec: Jacob Friedberg

Treas: Madison Brown