“I knew that I wanted to play a college sport, but I didn’t know what sport and that probably turned some coaches away from recruiting me, especially since they didn’t even know if I was going to play their sport.” “It was kind of a nice thing, but also a troublesome thing in that I didn’t know what I wanted to play,” Carroll said. As a three-sport athlete in basketball, tennis and football, he wasn’t sure exactly which sport he wanted to play in college. He didn’t want me to quit, but he said do what you want to do, so after a discussion with my parents I decided maybe I’d be happier doing something else.”ĭoing something else had always been in Carroll’s mind since he graduated from high school in 1995.
“Talking with coach, I knew my role probably wasn’t going to expand much at that time. “I talked with Coach MacLeod, and all that I had been through as a walk on, it really wasn’t exactly where I wanted to be,” Carroll said.
That’s because the senior from La Grange, Ill., was a member of the Notre Dame tennis team and not the basketball team.Īfter two years playing basketball as a walk-on with limited playing time, Carroll decided to try tennis, a sport he played at Lyons Township High School, where he earned all-state honors three times. At this time last year, Dennis Carroll was more concerned with his forehand than his jumpshot.
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