1. Always having your best friends around to do things with you.
2. Living in sweats... all day, every day.
3. Having someone who always forces you to work out, even when you don't want to.
4. And feeling badass AF because of how strong and in shape you are.
5. Eating an enormous amount of delicious food every day, because you've gotta ~fuel~ your workouts.
6. Carb-loading dinners.
7. Never having to do your own laundry.
8. All the locker room shenanigans that happened when the coaches weren't around.
9. Sporting badass battle wounds year-round.
10. Being able to use 'I have practice' as an excuse for everything.
11. Getting ridiculous amounts of free gear that you then lived in for the next year.
12. This being one of your toughest decisions.
13. Having immediate access to an athletic trainer who treated and diagnosed EVERYTHING.
14. The fact that every training, practice, and game was a glorious competition.
15. And knowing that being overly aggressive was a GOOD thing.
16. When all "worrying about the future" entailed was thinking about how you were going to win this year's championship.
17. The pride that came with representing something bigger than yourself.
18. And that feeling you got when you walked out on to the field before a big game.
19. But most importantly, being a part of a team who you'd do anything and everything for because they were family.
