As soon as David DiLeo took his first steps as a child, a tennis racquet was in his hands.
The sophomore foward’s mother, Kay DiLeo, played collegiate tennis at Drake University and taught her husband, Frank DiLeo, to play when they met.
David's parents might have assumed that he would be a tennis player, until he fell in love with basketball.
“My parents started me early (with tennis),” David said. “I’ve been playing my whole life all the way through high school. Once I got to college, I had to pick one and I found my love for basketball.