Just like his father, senior Jude Alamo wants to be a doctor.

He is still deciding which college he wants to attend: Ithaca College in New York, or University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass.

“UMass has the program I want to take: pre-med with a focus in kinesiology. But I like the Ithaca campus better; the school itself is more appealing,” Alamo said.

Alamo is the son of Dr. Aqui and Chat Alamo of Boothbay and is in the top 10 seniors in the Boothbay Region High School class of 2014. He has been on the wrestling team and the football team as a running back and defensive back, and plays track and field. He was class president in both his sophomore and junior years.

The last home football game this year was “an emotional night,” Alamo said. “I suddenly realized that that night was it. I wouldn't play on this field ever again. I was sitting in the field after the game, which we lost after being ahead for most of the night, remembering all the games the team had played.”

For Alamo, his greatest inspiration has been his father, and teacher/coach Bryan Dionne.

“It's the way they are, the way they live their lives,” Alamo said. “They both motivate themselves and the people around them, and have faced struggles and overcome them. They inspire me to do better.”

Alamo has received numerous awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa Award, Yale Book Award and AP Scholar Award. He was also recently inducted into the National Honor Society. He was Youth of the Year at the Boothbay Region YMCA as a freshman.

Alamo has worked at the Glidden Point Oyster Farm for the last two years and plans to again this summer. He might return for another year before moving on to summer internships.

“We have millions of seeds,” Alamo said. “We grow them and transfer them until they get dumped overboard into the water so they can grow to full size and be harvested. I really enjoy working there.”