Senior Joe Reiser has been playing basketball for 8 years and believes that you should always try your hardest, even when no one is watching. He constantly challenges himself and this has been apparent in his service to both the school and the community. His passion for athletics and his desire to succeed in school make him the focus of our April issue’s ONE|SEQUOIT Project.

EDUCATION AND STUDENT LIFE
I have five AP classes this year and it’s a lot of work that you have to put in because they’re run like college classes so the teachers expect you to put a lot in outside of school. When you add them all on top of each other it gets even more difficult. However, I like to think my work ethic is one of my strongest qualities. Before you could get by with being smart, but now you have to really work at it. This year, I’m in International Club and Psychology Club and my sophomore year I was in the Rube Goldberg club. As a freshman, I didn’t really get involved in a lot of clubs or activities, but now that I’m a senior and I am involved in a couple, I kind of wish I started earlier. My advice is that it’s never too late to start something new.

ATHLETICS
I played football, basketball and track my freshman year so I did three sports my first year. Then I decided I liked basketball the most so I decided to focus on that. I’m not really naturally gifted at it so I’ve had to work pretty hard at it. Throughout sophomore and junior year I went to training every day during the offseason and I’ve put a lot of time into it. I just really enjoy it as a sport. I also take a lot of pride in representing my school and I think that one of the best ways to do that is on a sports field or in a gym. I feel like when I’m out there playing, I can represent my school and show how much dedication I’ve put in. I’ve learned a lot about leadership through basketball because I was captain this past year, and I learned what a good leader can do and what he can do to motivate other people and how that can have a positive effect on the entire team.

SERVICE
I’ve gotten a lot of my NHS hours through the Junior Sequoits program which is the sports program for the little kids. I’ve volunteered at the food pantry and last year we did a big fundraiser for them. It’s really rewarding to volunteer, but I don’t do it for myself, I do it to help the community because I know that there are people less fortunate than me who could use a little boost. Once they get that, it can help them find success. I feel like it’s important to give back to the community of Antioch because it’s done so much for me.

The purpose of the ONE|SEQUOIT Project is to display how Antioch Community High School has impacted current and graduated students’ lives through education, student life, athletics and community service. This project is our attempt to tell a story of ACHS through the lens of its students—past, present and future. These stories are not told by Tom Tom journalists. Instead, they are told by the Sequoits themselves. It is their words, their story and their experience. They are ACHS, and together they are ONE|SEQUOIT.