Q: Name?

A: Brody M. 

Q: Class Rank?

A: 7th.

Q: Parents’ Names?

A: Kim and Mark McDowell. 

Q: Future plans?

A: Nazareth University to study accounting.

Q: Honors & Awards?

A: High honor roll and National Honor Society.

Q: Activities & Sports?

A: Soccer, basketball and golf.

Q: What is your proudest achievement?

A: Winning sectionals in soccer and basketball.

Q: What will you miss most about school?

A: The relationships with teachers, joking around with classmates and teachers.

Q: What’s the most important lesson you learned in high school?

A: Get to know everyone and be social to the people around you.

Q: What do you hope your life looks like in 10 years? 

A: I hope to have a stable job and be living my best life.

Q: Who inspires you to do your best? 

A: My parents because they have made me who I am today.

Q: What’s your favorite place in Avon? 

A: Dontonio’s because it’s a local business that serves great food.

Q: What’s your go-to Tom Wahl’s order? 

A: Garbage plate. 

Q: If you could tell your eighth grade self one thing, what would it be?

A: Studying is not needed until college.

Q: What do you want people to know about what it’s like to be you, to be your age, at this moment in time?

A: Being at this age, life is great because you’re in the middle of still being a kid but also growing up to become an adult.

Q: What would the title of your autobiography be?

A: “How Brody McDowell Managed” 

Q: Who would play you in a movie about your life? 

A: Adam Sandler

Q: What’s your most listened to song?

A: “Return of the Mack,” by Mack Morrison. I like the song a lot - shout out to Kellan Schneider.

Q: What scares you about the future? 

A: Artificial intelligence.

Q: What gives you hope about the future? 

A: God gives me hope about the future.

Q: Tell me about a time when you were stronger than you thought you could be.

A: I went into the AP Bio test with no thought of passing it and I passed.

Q: If you had to cook a meal to impress someone, what would you make? 

A: Shrimp alfredo.

Q: What superpower would you pick and why? 

A: I’d choose flying so I could get to places quicker.

Q: Imagine it’s 2047 and you have teenage kids of your own. What advice would you give your 40(ish)-year-old self about being a good parent?

A: I’d be a guide to my kids but also let them figure out life themselves.