‘At the end of the day, I’m a teacher first’

For Rudy Ochoa II, teaching way to give back

OTHELLO — Rudy Ochoa II said the influences that led him to a teaching career were all around him. His mom Gloria Ochoa was, and is, a counselor who works for Adams County, and his dad Rudy Ochoa Sr. works at Scootney Springs Elementary, and as a coach in Othello, Rudy Sr. is something of a legend. “My dad, he coached all of us,” Ochoa said. Ochoa’s wife Eden is a teacher at Scootney Springs. His brother is a teacher and coach too; his sister was a teacher and coach, and still coaches. Another sister also is a coach, and so are two of this brothers-in-law, while his sister-in-law works in education too.