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Iowa artist Rose Frantzen paints ISU graudate student Derrick Kapayou as part of the Faces of Iowa State series. Commissioned by University Museums and the Office of the President, the portraits will hang in Parks Library as part of University Museums Art on Campus Collection at Iowa State University.
Artist Rose Frantzen is most famous for her work, “Portrait of Maquoketa, a huge mural painted on 34 vertical panels that feature the beautiful landscape of Maquoketa on one side, and the faces of 180 residents of Maquoketa on the other.
Over the past five years, on and off, she’s been painting portraits for the “Faces of Iowa State” collection. This year she added six students to the collection. The students were selected because they have shown resilience and positivity in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Each student was painted wearing a mask, which Frantzen said gives this set of portraits a time element.
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The Trojans will be returning four starters for next season, with only Breanna Benge graduating. Pleasantville will be looking to improve their offense for next season, as they averaged 41 points per game in 2020-21, which was sixth in the conference. Coach Jeff Cook tells KNIA Sports that his team needs to improve offensively in order to make a push towards the top of the conference.
“Well we got some work to do and the nice thing is that we have a good chunk of starters and players that played a lot coming back. We lost two seniors, but we have five or six kids that played a lot. The negative to that is that if you look down at the conference roster, a lot of them were juniors and sophomores. So, a lot of them have a lot of kids coming back. When we did the all-conference selections, the only team that had a lot of seniors was Des Moines Christian.”
The Mustangs struggled to get any consistency offensively throughout the game, never leading. Senior Andrew Mitchell led the way with 14 points, including one of PCM’s three three-pointers. Gaitlin Boell was second on the team in scoring, with 11 points. PCM had a hard time stopping Des Moines Christian’s Adam Witty, who finished with 20 total points. Coach Fred Lorensen tells KNIA Sports that despite the loss, he felt his team put forth their best effort.
“Well, I thought we played really hard and had a really tough team to play. I think they knew they would be in the game anyway.”
Junior Mason Scheve broke out and averaged 19 points per game while shooting 47% from the field and 40% from beyond the arc. Scheve also set a career-high with 35 points against Des Moines Christian on January 22. Senior Caylor Clark will graduate with 422 career points, including 198 this past season. Another player that emerged as a three-point shooter is Junior Taylon Mount, who shot 35% from three-point range.
Pleasantville will be returning two starters next season, who are Scheve and Mount. Clark, Austin McMillin, and Colby Sandholdt all will graduate. Players that are potential starters next year include Parker Sheets and Jake DeJoode.
The Trojans finished with an 8-14 record on the season, including a playoff victory over Colfax-Mingo last Monday.