Hayden Kesner

 "I feel like as you get older, the more pressure there is the fun element of everything kind of just like disappears at times. And I've noticed within myself that if I just sit there and talk to myself and say you know what, Hayden, have fun. Enjoy your time out here like, tomorrow, like practice, I wanted to have fun and like do this and do that. And today practice I want to have fun and be able to like enjoy my run, which is very hard to enjoy runs because they kind of suck. But at the same time, like you just need to have fun with it. And I've noticed that when I do have fun. It's not like, it's not that I have to go to practice. It's I want to go to practice and I want to be at practice. And that entire like just changed. And like that kind of switch is just more it's a lot more different than I think people realize, like, dreading to go to practice. Like I've definitely dreaded it before, not here. But like when I was younger, I was like oh my gosh, like, I don't want to go I don't want to spend my Sunday at practice. Like I don't want to do that. But like here, it's like something I look forward to in my day like I'm at classes. Oh my gosh, get me out of this class, like I want to go to practice. I want to run a lap around the turf field to warm up and get ready for practice. Like that mentality is just insane. And I know a lot of people might not have that. But like, if you can convince yourself that every single thing on that field is fun. Then you're gonna have a time your life."