Junior Round-Up: Tyler Brumm, David Rodriguez, Alex Schirrick

Junior Round-Up: Tyler Brumm, David Rodriguez, Alex Schirrick

By Marc Esquivel  Posted October 12, 2011

Tyler Brumm

Tyler Brumm /Marc Esquivel • The Brand
Tyler Brumm /Marc Esquivel • The Brand

Q. What do you drive?
A. A GMC truck, the mileage sucks.

Q. What’s the greatest thing that’s happened to you in high school?
A. In both my years of basketball, we haven’t lost a league game.

Q. Do you have any role models?
A. I’d say Lance Armstrong because he had cancer and still won the Tour de France seven times in a row. I don’t like cycling but that’s impressive.

Q. Can you describe yourself in five words?
A. Athletic, shy, smart, cool, and a gentleman.

Q. If zombies took over the world, what would you do?
A. I’d find the Cool Cats and save the world.

Q. If you had to evacuate your house, what’s the one thing you would grab?
A. I’d grab as much money as I could so I could buy clothes.

Q. What’s one of your pet peeves?
A. Annoying people.

Q. What’s your deepest fear?
A. I would say dying, even though that’s a little cliché.

Q. Have you ever lived somewhere else?
A. No, born and raised here.

Q. What’s your favorite place you have traveled to?
A. Hawaii, because it’s Hawaii. Who doesn’t like Hawaii?

Q. What’s your most embarrassing moment?
A. In little league basketball I scored for the other team.

Q. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
A. I see myself as a psychologist.

Q. What advice would you give someone coming into high school?
A. Don’t mess with upperclassmen, do your homework, and don’t do drugs.

Q. How would you describe life at Lowry?
A. Good. It’s really chill, I just avoid the drama and hang out with the Cool Cats.

Q. How do you like living in Winnemucca?
A. I like it here. I’m glad I grew up here.

David Rodriguez

David Rodriguez/Marc Esquivel • The Brand
David Rodriguez/Marc Esquivel • The Brand

Q. Have you ever lived anywhere besides Winnemucca?
A. Nope, I’ve been here 16 years. I can’t wait to move to Reno, though.

Q. What’s your favorite part about high school?
A. We’ve got “Dudesdays” on Thursdays, every Thursday, my boys Cole Erquiaga, Marc Esquivel, Cody Green, Josh Shaver, and sometimes Manny Herrera and I go to Tacos El Mono.

Q. Can you describe yourself in five words?
A. I am the man!

Q. What’s your favorite quote?
A. The world needs change and I’m that new cashier. – Drizzy Drake

Q. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
A. I see myself working, with about ten babies.

Q. What advice would you give someone coming into high school?
A. Treasure it, high school goes by super fast. Some people don’t believe it, but it’s true.

Q. What do you fear in life?
A. Spiders. I hate spiders.

Q. Do you have any pet peeves?
A. Facebook, because I’m always on it. It’s an addictive cyber drug.

Q. What’s your favorite place you have traveled to?
A. I went to Mexico in fourth grade, it was good but all these Mexicans came up to me because I was dressed nice and asked me for money.

I was only in fourth grade, I didn’t have any money.

Q. If the world was to be taken over by zombies today, what would you do?
A. I’d grab my AK-47 and start shooting.

Q. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
A. I plan to be a computer engineer, and if that doesn’t happen then most likely I’m going to work at a mine.

Q. If you had to evacuate your house, what’s the one thing you would grab?
A. If anything, my TV because I got it for Christmas.

Q. What are your interests?
A. I like to play football, hang with my boys, you know, cool things.

Q. Who’s your role model?
A. My family, I see what they did in life and I just want to do better.

Q. What are you most proud of?
A. Making it to eleventh grade, most of my family hasn’t made it this far.

Q. What’s your most embarrassing moment?
A. I was hugging this girl and I went to sit down while hugging her but there was nothing to sit on so I fell and hurt my growth plate in my wrist.

Q. What is most important to you?
A. My mom, because I love my mommy.

Q. What are you compassionate about?
A. Peace, love, and a word you can’t say at school.

Q. What do you think about Lowry/Winnemucca?
A. Winnemucca’s a small drama and town and Lowry could do a few things to improve, like longer lunches and more dances, because I like to get my dance on.

Alex Schirrick

Alex Schirrick. /Marc Esquivel • The Brand
Alex Schirrick. /Marc Esquivel • The Brand

Q. What is your favorite part about high school?
A. Cheering at football, and I like Madison Waldie.

Q. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
A. On the streets of New York, dancing for money.

Q. Who are your role models?
A. Victoria Justice because she’s so pretty, she’s awesome, and she’s on Nickelodeon.

Q. What are you scared of?
A. The devil, because he’s scary.

Q. What’s your favorite quote?

A. If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolsoy
Q. What advice would you give someone coming into high school?
A. Have good friends, don’t get pregnant, and have fun.

Q. What are your interests?
A. Cheer, Nic, track, Letterman’s is fun too.

Q. What kind of music do you like?
A. I like weird music, well indie stuff like Jack Johnson. I hate screamo. But I definitely like Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and MGMT.

Q. Could you survive in the wild? How?
A. Yeah. I would kill everything and eat it.

Q. If zombies took over the world, what would you do?
A. I would hide Nic, because he’s afraid of zombies. And then I’d kill all the zombies by shooting them in the head. That’s how they did it in “Dawn of the Dead”.

Q. If you had to evacuate your house, what’s the one thing you would grab?
A. My pictures.

Q. Can you describe yourself in five words?
A. No. No? Oh… happy, funny, and shy.

Q. What are you most proud of?
A. Being an All-American cheerleader, and my hair because I grew it all myself.

Q. What’s your most embarrassing moment?
A. In sixth grade at Sunday school, I had a big hole in my pants when I walked outside and I realized my butt was showing.

Q. Where is your favorite place that you have traveled to?
A. Minnesota because there’s a bunch of nice farm people, and my family lives there.

Q. What do you think about Winnemucca?
A. It’s small. And it’s not as bad as everyone makes it sound.