...Before any of us could even recover from the initial shock, my teammates and I were being forced to leave the field for the next match. It was a bitter loss. We had lost in the first round of the tournament that we had worked so hard to participate in...

When my fourteen friends and I decided to found a soccer team, even the reactions of people who were supposed to be supporting us were unsolicited skepticism. More than half of us had never formally played soccer before and our senior year schedule was bound to be more than heavy...