Diego Montoya is currently a senior at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School. Montoya is a talented student athlete where he spent four years on the soccer team and three years on the wrestling team. He plans on attending Pennsylvania College of Technology after high school.
What’s your plan after high school?
Diego: To attend college and get a civil engineering degree and get a job in civil engineering.
What will you miss the most about high school?
Probably the sports, like playing wrestling, soccer and gym. Gym is pretty fun and playing volleyball.
What was your biggest struggle you faced in high school?
Physics was so hard for me. So you can think about the math, how you understand the math, but then you have to think about it. Like how things move, so if you think someone is going forward, math is involved. It’s just the way to think about it is weird, math is easy.
Did you have any goals coming into high school? If so, did you accomplish them?
Yeah I wanted to join the soccer team and I joined the team. So that worked….became a baller.
What do you wish you did differently in high school?
Wish I joined more clubs. Attended more events. I didn’t go to cotillion, I’m not going to prom either, but yeah, I wish I would join more events. Talk to more people.
Where do you see yourself in the next five years?
Trillionaire. Working an engineering job and living in Texas.
What’s your favorite high school memory?
Woodbridge versus JFK during the wrestling match, my sophomore year. It was hyped.
What got you into wrestling?
I was doing it just to stay in shape for soccer and I had a pact with my friend because we both wanted to do wrestling, but we didn’t want to like, actually do it. So then he was like, “If you do, I’ll do it,” and he did it, and I never joined my freshman year. Then he forced me to do it my sophomore year but it was more of a way to stay in shape and not get fat.
What will you miss the most about wrestling?
Probably the practices and hanging out with my friends after, or the matches. The matches are really fun, going in there. Not when I lose. Hanging out with your friends there and senior night was good too.
What advice would you give to incoming freshmen?
Join clubs, join teams, try-out for everything, and you can figure out what you like.
You can find something new, maybe join badminton club. Badminton is tough. That’s why I do badminton in gym now, or pickleball. Yeah, join everything and try everything.
