Cox, a three-sport athlete and an active member of his church youth group, credits his mother, Beverly, with setting him on his career path.
"She wanted me to consider the medical field," he said.
A school nurse, his mother arranged for him to shadow pharmacist Steve Wiley at Wiley's Pharmacy in Centerville. This summer, he worked there as a pharmacy technician.
Previously, he worked at Rita's Italian Ice on Columbia Avenue and at Dutch Wonderland.
The busy teen, whose favorite subjects in school are math and science, plans to pursue a career in medicine, perhaps becoming a pharmacist.
"I would like being able to help people," he said. "It would be neat to answer their questions."
Cox, with a 4.0 grade-point average, ranks eighth in his class of 582 students. He is treasurer of the National Honor Society and a member of the National Spanish Honor Society.
Last year, he took Advanced Placement statistics. This year, he is enrolled in AP environmental science, a new offering at Hempfield, and AP calculus.
All his other courses are honors courses, with the exception of English, which he decided would be too much on top of his busy sports schedule.(source) |
