Before Holy Cross: A four-year member and two-time captain of the golf team under head coach Augie Link ... Won the 2008 Connecticut Junior Amateur Championship and advanced to the 2009 Connecticut Amateur Round of 16 ... Finished third at the New England High School Championship ... His Tolland teams twice won the CIAC Division III State Championship ... Honored as team MVP his junior and senior years ... A four-time All-Conference selection, he also received All-State honors on three occasions from the Hartford Courant ... Won an Academic Scholar Award his senior year ... Also played basketball at Tolland.

Personal: Son of Daniel and Darlene McCarthy ... Has two brothers (Brendan and Tom) ... Brother, Tom, is a junior on the Yale golf team ... Has not yet declared a major.