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Interview With a Griffin: Varsity Football Player Alex Redmond
Committed to the University of Oregon, Redmond, a 17-year-old Los Alamitos High School senior, said he plays for his family name.
It’ll be the Griffins vs. the Knights Thursday as Los Alamitos High School faces Lynwood High School.
(By the way, how about a movie about real griffins fighting real knights? You’re welcome, Hollywood.)
In preparation of the upcoming match, we here at Patch are continuing our series of profiles of local varsity LAHS football players.
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Parents, if you’d like us to profile your varsity player, please scroll down to the end of this article for information on how.
Name: Alex Redmond.
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Number: 51.
Age: 17.
Height: 6 feet, 5 inches (according to maxpreps.com).
Weight: 295 pounds.
City: Cypress.
Position: Left guard.
Grade: Senior.
Committed to: University of Oregon.
Favorite thing about football: “Putting people on their backs, definitely. … Just hitting people.”
Which game are you looking forward to the most? “Probably Edison. (So we can) get some payback.”
Favorite type of food: Carne asada.
Favorite subject tin school: History.
Anybody you’re playing for: “Just the name on my back. I’m going to be the first person in my family to be going to a university.”
Any challenges you faced in the past year? “Getting in shape. I was a little out of shape. I had some bad weight. So now I’m about 295 now.”
Anything you want else to say: “Keep dreaming. Just keep dreaming. Always gotta have that dream.”
Upcoming game schedule (all games begin at 7 p.m.)
Sept. 20
Thursday
Previous Profiles:
Quarterback Cody Marshall.
Defensive Line, Full Back Daniel Szechy
Corner James Stea
Note to parents: As you are no doubt aware, there are more than 10 players on a varsity football team.
Unfortunately, since we only had a limited amount of time, we interviewed only 10 players for this profile thingamajig.
However, if you would like us to profile your varsity Los Alamitos High School football player, send an email to paige.austin@patch.com.
We’ll send you a list of questions. You have your player answer ‘em, you send us a pic and, time permitting, we’ll run it.
Go Griffins!
