Former hoops star pursues football opportunity

Four years and one surgery ago, Jacob McEnroe was one of the top basketball players in the state. As a Farrington senior, he led the Governors to the championship game of the 2014 Division I state championship game. He was named to the all-tournament team.

But McEnroe, who appeared headed to Baylor as a basketball/football player, had dual setbacks: 1) he did not meet the NCAA requirements to play as a freshman, and 2) he suffered a torn patella. McEnroe rehabbed the injury, then attended Scottsdale Community College and then Fullerton College. Today, as a UH student, he competed in the Warriors’ walk-on tryout for football players.

“I really wanted to stay on this rock,” said McEnroe, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound defensive back. “I’m a UH fan.”

McEnroe said he was a regular during the Colt Brennan-led years.

“I was always at the top in the nose-bleed seats watching their games,” McEnroe said following the tryouts. “And now I’m here.”