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- Height:
- 5-9
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- Weight:
- 150
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- Year:
- 2019-22
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- Hometown:
- Sunnyvale, CA
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- High School:
- St. Francis
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- College:
- Harvey Mudd
Bio
On Court: 4-Star recruit who ranked as high as No.164 in his class...highest singles ranking in home section NorCal was No. 7 in the 18s, while highest doubles ranking was No. 5 in the 16s...played No. 1 singles for Saint Francis High School, winning the league singles title as a senior...favorite junior tournament was 16s Zonals in Salt Lake City, UT...2018-2019 made auspicious Stags Tennis debut at ITA West Regionals, knocking out defending singles champion Chase Lipscomb of Redlands in three sets in the first round...partnered senior Avi Vemuri in doubles and the duo was 1-1 in two matches at ITA Regionals, taking eventual champs Shankar and Wei of Caltech to a tie-break in the Round of 16 after having one match point...appeared in 11 dual matches in the spring, playing singles positions 3-6...lost a total of six games in his first three singles matches of the spring against Hope International, Christopher Newport, and Quinnipiac...also had impressive wins against Sewanee and UC Santa Cruz...appeared in two doubles matches at the No. 3 position with Morris, winning both...concluded 2019 with overall records of 10-3 in singles and 3-1 in doubles...2019-2020 was 4-1 in five singles matches at the ITA West Regionals, reaching the Flight B singles final and losing 6-4, 6-7(3), (10-8) to Pomona-Pitzer's Charlie Stark...returned in the spring to register more consistent dual match action in both singles and doubles...played in five singles duals, and staying undefeated at positions 3-5...lost five games at No. 3 singles against Pacific (OR), which turned out to be his closest match...was also 2-0 in doubles dual matches, partnering Habbestad against Hope International, and Hao against Whittier...also competed in Pacific Coast Doubles in La Jolla with Hao...completes the shortened 2020 season with overall records of 9-1 in singles and 2-2 in doubles...2021-2022 had his most impressive ITA West Regionals to date, becoming only the third HMC student-athlete in the past 15 years to reach a singles or doubles final, and only the second Mudder to advance to the ITA Cup in singles...unseeded in the Regionals singles, Carroll defeated No. 4 Caleb Wilkins of Chapman in the first round, then Parker McBride of Cal Lu in the second round, teammates Chris Li and No. 2 Matt Robinson in the quarters and semis respectively, before losing to teammate and No. 3 seed Robert Liu in the final...partnered Li in the doubles and went 2-2...joined teammates Liu, Arimilli, and Martin in advancing to the ITA Cup in Rome, GA, where he went 1-2 in three singles matches...began the spring season as one of three senior leaders in the top half of the singles starting line up, playing No. 2 and 3 singles and No. 2 doubles (with Freer) for the first six weeks of the dual match season...really hit his stride in April, going 11-2 in singles and 7-5 in doubles with five different partners...reached the singles final of the Ojai D3 tournament with wins over four No. 1 singles players...led 6-1, 5-1 in his last match as a Stag against Josh Lopez of Hardin-Simmons at NCAA Regionals, before the Stags clinched...completed 2022 with overall records of 21-12 in singles and 18-15 in doubles and earning a West Region year-end singles ranking of No. 22...career marks of 40-16 in singles (.714) and 23-18 in doubles...finished second on the team in match clinches with five (5)...was awarded Stags Tennis' most coveted accolade - the Hank Krieger Trophy - for best modeling the attributes of a team player...also awarded 2nd Team All-SCIAC and earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors for his excellent academic achievement at HMC.
Personal: Son of Min and Jim Carroll...has one older sister, Victoria, who graduated from UCSB in 2018...enjoys spending time outdoors biking, hiking, camping, and kayaking...also loves working on cars, and restored a pre-owned BMW which he drove back to HMC from his home in Northern California in 2020...spent 2020-2021 working as a student remotely in rural Utah and Wyoming.
Favorite Stag: Daniel Morkovine (CMC '17)
Say What?: served as practice partner for Venus and Serena Williams at 2018 Silicon Valley Classic