Alex Smereczniak

I had Villanova Vanderbilt.

I wanted smaller too.

It's like, Duke, check that box.

Wait.

Cause I don't know, going from a town of 15,000 people to a school of 15,000 kids felt terrifying.

Yeah.

It was like, oh, basketball, I can get over the size.

I wasn't like terrified of big cities, but I was like, no New York, no Chicago.

I just, I couldn't.

Yeah, so I actually went to a boarding school my junior and senior year of high school because I went to my parents my freshman year of high school and said, they were asking, why don't you have homework very often?

Well, they're teaching like 20 minutes and then the other 20 minutes, like do your homework.

Like, well, shouldn't the other 20 minutes be teaching?

I was like, yeah, I think so too.

And I feel like this isn't good.

I remember going to my parents and be like, I don't, the rest of the world probably isn't doing this.

I know other kids are doing AP classes and all this stuff and I'm not doing that.

And I don't think that's good for me if I want to have this life that I want to have.

So I approached them when I was 14 and said, I need to go to another school.

And Red Wing only has one option.

Right.