Former YCS standout Casey Carroll signs with Drexel

By TOM WILLIAMS

williams@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

Casey Carroll, The Vindicator’s 2010 boys basketball Player of the Year, feels the rigors of playing a season with Kiski Prep in Saltsburg, Pa., have helped prepare him for Division I college basketball.

Tuesday, Carroll signed his letter-of-intent to play for Drexel University of the Colonial Athletic Conference. He’ll attend the Philadelphia school in late summer and major in business management.

Carroll, who is 6-foot-8 and weighs 225 pounds, will be playing for Drexel head coach James “Bruiser” Flint, someone familiar to the Carroll family.

Read the story in Wednesday’s Vindicator and vindy.com.