Diego Torres '19 Recruiting Profile

I am new to tennis, but I have been playing sports my entire life. When I was seven, I told my mom I wanted to earn an athletic scholarship to help pay for college. My athletic career started when I was in kindergarten playing soccer and t-ball. I added basketball in second grade and football in fourth grade. Although I was a pitcher, quarterback, and shooting guard, I never found a sport that I was really passionate about until my freshman year when I picked up a tennis racquet. I love that there are so many difficult aspects to the game, but if you play it right, it looks so simple and the results are beautiful.

My freshman year I ended the season playing four doubles on the junior varsity team. My family did not have money for private lessons or clubs over the winter, so every day I went to our recreation center and hit off a wall for hours.  The summer before my sophomore year I attended a tennis camp, and that experience playing against tougher competition really helped motivate me to get better. I got a job working for my coach helping to teach the elementary and middle school summer camps and was able to use that money to pay for private lessons. When the sophomore season began, all that work over the off-season helped me jump to two doubles varsity. My partner was also new to the varsity team; we managed to finish 4^th out of 8^th in our conference. Over this past winter I used my summer money to continue to fund my private lessons and continued to hit off the recreation center wall. This spring I am helping to lead pre-season tennis workouts and became head instructor for the elementary and middle school tennis camps. This year I am playing one doubles varsity.

It is this level of commitment that I will bring to any college team that I play for. I am fully committed to the game of tennis and hope that this commitment can help me and my family pay for college wherever I choose to play.