Written by senior sports journalism student Cassie Campise and mass communication graduate student Jenna Nabors, students working for Sun Devil Athletics in the Public Relations Lab at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Murphy Cassone has been playing tennis since birth.
"Pretty much since I was in diapers. My parents just threw the racquet in my hand and then had me on the court," Cassone said.
The No. 1 high school prospect out of Kansas had several offers and visited many different Division I schools, but it was the coaching staff at Arizona State University that resonated most with him the most.