There’s always that one parent at a sporting event who yells at the referees for making the wrong call. This time it was Mitchell Ginther’s mom, Bev. Last spring he drove up to Stuart, Iowa with some friends to watch the Atlantic girls’ district soccer game against Nodaway Valley.  As to why his mom decided to yell, Ginther said, “The heat was rising and so was the physicality.”  

The crowd seemed to think that the game was going in favor of Nodaway. Ginther’s mom had had enough and snapped at the referee. The referee then proceeded to throw her out of the game. Ginther said his mom took it with “great acceptance” and gave him a high five on the way out. Five minutes after she had been thrown out, Ginther and the rest of the student section started chanting “Bring back Bev,” thus creating his favorite high school memory.

The most memorable moment in Ginther’s life so far was three years ago when his family adopted two of his siblings, Brady and Livie. After the loss of a parent, Brady and Livie were placed with their grandparents for six months, while their grandparents searched for a family for them.  

The first time Ginther met them was at the Des Moines Science Center with his mom, dad and younger sister, Alyssa.  At first sight, he noticed the four-year-old girl had a blonde bowl haircut, and the six-year-old boy had “bright blue eyes.” Ginther later found out that the girl had a bowl cut because she had cut her own hair with scissors.  

That day at the science center, the Ginther family walked around and had lots of fun looking at all of the exhibits. His favorite part was when they saw a magic show, which didn’t impress him as much as it did Brady and Livie. Ginther said, “Livie even sat on my mom’s lap with the biggest smile on her face.” Looking back on that moment, Ginther said, “Little did I know that these two would later become my siblings.”

Throughout high school, Ginther has participated in a plethora of activities. Freshman year consisted of football and basketball, NHS his junior and senior year, choir senior year and soccer and band all four years. Ginther won homecoming king senior year and aspires to be remembered as “the king.” Math classes in high school are stressful to many, but to Ginther, “learning how to math from thee Sheila Hayden,” made him smile everyday.

When Ginther was younger, he wanted to be an astronaut, but if he could have a superpower, he’d have heat vision so he could heat up his food whenever he wanted. Rather than using $1 million dollars to invent heat vision, he would buy as much cereal as he could. “I would eat half of it, and give the other half to the starving children in Africa. In his free time, Ginther enjoys gardening.