Alex Popp was a sharp shooting basketball player during the late 1960s. He was a four-year starter, averaging 15.9 points in 90 career games to rank fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,433 points. 

Popp is second in career field goals made (639) and attempted (1,306) and fifth in free throw shooting percentage (.712 percent, 156 for 219). During his sophomore season he led the team in scoring, averaging 19.7 points per game. 

Westfield State posted a 55-35 record during his four years, and in 1969, the year he was a team captain, Popp was selected to the New England State Teachers College all star team. 

Popp was very active in extracurricular activities at Westfield State, and in 1969 he was named one of the Outstanding College Athletes of America. He was a dean's list student, dorm council president, presidential host, vice-president of the Men's Athletic Association, Blue Key Award recipient, and a member of the drama club and newspaper staff. 

Popp was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and graduated in 1965 from Chicopee Comprehensive High School, where he was a first team All Western Mass. selection during his senior year. He lived in many states and several European countries before enrolling at Westfield State. 

His father, Alex, was a career man in the Air Force and he, too, graduated from Westfield State ('78). 

Popp has served as the principal at Lincoln Elementary School in Melrose.. He was affiliated with the Lexington schools for 24 years, both as a teacher/coach and later as an assistant principal. He was the assistant boys' basketball coach at Lexington High School from 1972-1982 and the girls' varsity tennis coach in 1985 and 1986. 

Popp is an educational consultant for IBM and National Geographic, and was one of two teachers statewide selected to attend the National Geographic Society Educational Leadership Institute in Atlanta in 1992. 

Popp resides in Winchester with his wife, Linda (Tsohonis) Popp, also a 1969 Westfield State graduate, and their two children: Alison and Alex. 

Popp's hobbies include playing tennis and coaching youth soccer, basketball and baseball. He is a former director of the Winchester Swim & Tennis Club and past president of the Winchester Tennis Association.