How long have you been in band?

I’ve been in band since sixth grade. I play the tuba and go to contests. Students who are in band are also required to be in marching band, we go to contests as a whole for that as well. Marching band, the competitions are school run and some of the individual contests are school run as well. In single contests I usually get ones (which is the highest rating possible) and for marching band we have gotten ones in past years however this time around we didn’t do so well.

How long have you been swimming?

I’ve been swimming since sixth grade. I swim for both liberty high school and then out of school I swim for Club North; we practice at the municipal in Gladstone. Last year I went to state with the school team for the Medley Relay, breaststroke leg.

Tell me about Architecture club

This is my second year being in Architecture Club. They have a problem sent in by a board of people and we solve it with architecture related solutions, then we take that solutions to the competitions we go to and they are judged with all of the other [five or so] schools and the judges pick the best ones. The club usually starts up after Thanksgiving break and we meet regularly until competition around Spring break and then the club dies off until the following school year.

What do you do outside of school?

I have a job at a vineyard making all different types of wines. It’s called Four Horses and a Dog. The guy who owns the vineyard is a family friend who asked me when I was about twelve years old if I needed money. He asked if I wanted to come down over the weekend sometimes over the summer so I picked up the trade. I didn’t start producing the actual alcohol until last year, until then I was just a helping hand. We went to competitions and got first place in a national event in Massachusetts.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

An architect specializing in low income/cost housing development from other countries. I was looking at Rensselaer up in Troy, New York because they have really good partnerships with CASE, which is a really good architecture firm that’s suppose to be one of the best in the nation. They have multitudes of advanced technologies in terms of architecture.

QUOTE FROM MURPHY ON ALEX:

“Alex really finished the season strong after facing an injury at the beginning of the year. He ended up placing top 8 in our conference which is really big and I think he’s going to make a run for the state cup next year in the 100 fly.”