During the fall of my senior year of high school, my school's soccer team made it to the semi-finals of the state championships. I know it doesn’t sound that exciting, but for a school the size of mine, this was a pretty big deal. As a small town, we typically got steamrolled by neighboring towns, thus, even making it to the semi-finals was our version of the World Cup. That entire week leading up to the game, it was all...