New London High School Student Crier

The following articles are written by students in the NLHS Journalism class. These efforts are critical as students learn to write accurate, informative and relevant essays about their community. The perspective of the young people in the New London community is important for all to know. As the year progresses, the growth of each writer will be appreciated by all. Be sure to share your positive thoughts with our budding reporters. Thank you! Virginia Ekstrand and Mrs. Thomas.

Cheesecake

By Cadance Mortimer, Zandyr Angel, Sophie Smith

At 600 Pine Street, New London, IA, you can get the 5-star cheesecake. The owners are Mark and Lori Hemton (Mark & Laurie Hempen) and they are very passionate about their work. The most popular cheese cases are White Chocolate Raspberry and Turtle. Mark and Lori love it when people go there regularaly, it shows them that they know people love their cheesecake. They have a great team of employees that work great together, even when it gets really busy for them, which is usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Junior-Varsity Volleyball

By Camile Addun – September 25. 2025 – Grade 9

The Junior-Varsity Volleyball team started the season August 11, 2025, /tget had Open Gym (A program where anyone from 6th to 12th grade could participate in) throughout the summer. It was a great opportunity for the volleyball players to warm themselves up and get ready for the season. They had their first Game of the season on September 8. 2025 at New London against Fort Madison. So far the have one 3 sets but haven’t won a full game. During their practices, they continue to work hard and work harder on their Serve Receive, Serving, Hitting and their Defense. The captains of the Junior Varsity Team are Isabella Busby and Natalie Fisher. They continuously work hard through the season to earn their first win.

Varsity Volleyball

By Makenna Jacobsmeier – Grade 9

This year’s 2025-26 varsity volleyball team starters are Molly Proost, Maarlianna Woodsmall , Kylea Schwenker, Olivia Romer, Makenna Jacobsmeier, and Maison Nelson. This year’s libero is Molly Proost, and Marlianna Woodsmall as the first server.

Two players have said what their favorite thing about volleyball is, Romer said, “Watching me and my friends grow together.” Schwenker said “being able to play in front of everyone like the student section.”

This year the girls have won 1-10 games, with Adams with the most kills, Proost with the most digs, and Minks with the most aces. This year’s last regular season game is on October 9, against Notre Dame at Notre Dame.

Cheerleading

By Olivia Crossett

The cheerleading team has been learning different stunts all through practices. According to cheerleader Sophie Smith, Smooth is the most like cheer overall. The team does stunts all the time for team bonding and team meals. As of right now, four people are minorly injured. “We get injured from stunts quite a bit,” Smith said, “we only get injuried if we con’t listen to Mullin.” The team tries to listen each other to stay safe and talk about conflicts to get over them. The team rules for the cheerleading team are Listen to Mullin, Don’t be disrespectful and treat everyone as humans.

New London High School Homecoming Game

By Tatem Reed and Jalen Reynolds – Grade 9

New London High School’s homecoming football game has recently been cancelled due to a lack of players and too many injuries, now, instead a basketball game will be its replacement.

The homecoming game that got cancelled was supposed to be against Danville, and many of the students here at New London were pretty excited for the game. Thankfully, the only thing that was really changed was the game, but homecoming week will resume as normal.

We interviews some of the students and players from our high school football team, and it was shown that there were some mixed feelings about our season and team. John Gallup (who played on the football team) stated, “Our team is veryhardworking,” when asked how he felt about the team this season.

Though some students thought that this season was underwhelming, everyone had faith that we would win the homecoming game, not letting performance from previous games discourage them from the overall season. We had interviews another player on the football team, Reed Linsdy, and he had said that “he was not excited for the homecoming game.”

Many people were ready for it to be a close game against Danville. We had asked 5 people what they thought the score would be. In every outcome, they had the New London Tigers winning for every single one of them. Though we will not have a homecoming football game, we still have great faith in our team.