Q&A with Maddy Murray

The snow will eventually start to melt and the sun will eventually peek out, but for the Montana women tennis players, they start play now. Beginning the second half of their season, the Griz are 5-2 overall and have one win in conference play.

On Friday, the women travel to take on the Drake University Bulldogs in Des Moines, Iowa.

One of the players for the Griz this year is Maddy Murray, a 5-foot-3 sophomore from Dallas, Texas.

Q: Is everything really bigger in Texas?

A: Yes it is, except my friends make the joke that everything is bigger in Texas except for me. But Montana has a bigger sky.

Q: What's one common question you get asked about growing up?

A: How did you have any friends? If [my brothers and I] hadn't had the tennis outlet for socialization, we wouldn't have been homeschooled.

Q: What did you

enjoy about being homeschooled?

A: I liked how close it made me with my brothers. We're extremely tight, and I don't think we would have been that close if we wouldn't have had that. It brought me closer to my parents, because my dad worked at home so they both taught us. It made us tight as a family.

Q: What was the biggest change from being homeschooled to going to college?

A: Senior year of high school, I went to a community college so I had been to college classes, so it wasn't drastic. The fun thing I liked was how I met so many people and it wasn't such a small pond of people. It gave me that diversity.

Q: Why did you choose mathematics as your major?

A: I love math because it's logical. It makes sense no matter what happens or who is grading it; it's objective. (Two plus two always equals four.)

Q: Do you prefer to play singles or doubles?

A: I like both. Singles is a little bit different because it's more individual, but doubles is fun because you can bring each other up.

Q: What do you miss about Texas?

A: The sun, hands down. No question about that one.

alexandria.valdez@umontana.edu