By Sam Istvan
After a freshman year in which he burst onto the scene and became the starting point guard for Catholic League contender Archbishop Carroll, it seemed life decided to throw everything it could at Dean Coleman-Newsome.
Dean Coleman-Newsome (above) missed his sophomore season with two knee injuries requiring surgery. (Phot: Ari Rosenfeld/Elite HS Scouting)
Before he could get his sophomore year off the ground, Coleman-Newsome found out in October 2020 that he had a lesion in one knee, an injury that would require surgery. While recovering from that surgery, an MRI revealed he had a lesion in the other knee as well. Coleman-Newsome underwent a second surgery in January, burying any hope of reaching the court that season.
Now a junior, Coleman-Newsome did not sugarcoat it when asked how he felt after receiving that brutal one-two punch of bad news: “Devastated. That was one of my lowest lows.”
The talented point guard, who says that being on the basketball court is his “favorite thing to do,” went to extreme measures to cope with the pain of not being able to play. Perhaps the most extreme? Not watching basketball at all.