Deciding to first be on the registry is easy because it’s a swab in your cheek to get some of your saliva, that was the easy part. I found out I was a match at the end of my redshirt junior year at Northwestern. (Being a match) meant I would have to sit out of a couple weeks of spring ball and a couple weeks of workouts. I had to speak with my coach and with my family and count the cost of missing that because who knows what can happen with the depth chart in that time. After some thought I knew it was the right thing to do.
Austin Carr speaks on meeting his bone marrow recipient
