Trip of a Lifetime
The year was 2004, and it’s one I’ll never forget. Like many high schoolers, I was lodged in that awkward stage between boy and man. Like most teenagers, I thought I was invincible. That bubble burst in February of that year when a close friend and teammate, all of 15 years old, was killed in a car crash. It shook my world.
It was the kind of sucker punch that hits
