Brody Heidemann and Peyton Parker discuss Fantasy Football for week 14 of the NFL.
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Brody Heidemann is a senior at Gretna East and this is his second year on the Wingspan staff, but his third year doing online journalism. He was a reporter during his time at Gretna High and is now the Broadcast Editor here at Gretna East.During his high school journalism career, he was a part of the State Champion team last year as well as a third-place medalist in Newspaper Column Writing, Sports News and a fifth-place medalist in Opinion Writing. This year, he is hoping to break the bronze streak and return to the State competition to win gold.Heidemann joined journalism because of his love for sports. He loves writing about sports, talking about sports, asking questions about sports and practically anything involving sports. Because of this passion, he is doing an internship at 1620 The Zone this year.Some of his other hobbies include hanging out with friends, playing video games, swimming and spending time with his family.
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Peyton Parker is a senior at Gretna East and this is his second year on the Wingspan staff. He serves as a reporter. Parker originally joined the staff to write stories about sports, but he hopes that he is able to write any kind of story.
Last year, he won first place in Sports Newswriting at the NSAA High School State Journalism competition and third place at the UNO High School Media Conference in Long-Form Audio.
He hopes to achieve victory at State again this year, write great stories and create fun, informative podcasts. In school, he is also involved in National Honor Society, and outside of school, he loves to play video games like Rocket League and Rainbow Six Siege.
Three words, he would describe himself as are funny, handsome and intelligent. His greatest goal in life is to make people laugh and smile. When he graduates, he hopes to write about sports in college and is planning to go to UNL.