About Alesha Peterson

Age: 18

Interests: golf, music, computers, cars, chicken.

Hobbies: basketball, track, bowling, dancing, video games, drums, eating, hanging out with friends and family.
Favorite Color: blue, purple
Favorite Movie(s): Norbit, Finding Nemo
Favorite Food: chicken, any food that is good
Favorite YPress Story: Swing dancing, Benin advance story

Stories by Alesha

	New generation's gettin' into the swing By Rachel Troy, 16, Alesha Peterson, 16, Ariel Aisen, 15 If you stop by the Fountain Square Theatre every other Friday night, you'll find hordes of teens from Lebanon High and other area schools swinging, tapping and whirling to a bouncy beat more typical of Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington than YoungBloodZ. Today, swing dancing is popular in Indianapolis and nationwide -- for all age groups.
	HPV vaccine: prevention is the choice By Alesha Peterson, 17 Alesha, who has made the decision to get the vaccine, believes the decision needs to be personal.
	Full-court pressure By Austin Golden, 15, Charlie Osborne, 12, Alesha Peterson, 17 Spencer Fields once kicked a star tennis player off the North Central High School team, even though the coach realized then that it meant the school would likely lose a state tennis title. Why? Because the kid was poisoning the mood of the team by putting too much pressure on everyone.

Photos by Alesha