May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 11m
English
Never underestimate the power of being seen.
—BRENÉ BROWN
By all objective measures, they were the worst high school hockey team in America. The River Rats of Ann Arbor Huron High School were 0–22–3. They hadn’t won a game in 365 days. At the end-of-year banquet, their head coach didn’t show up; he knew he was about to be fired. The athletes had nothing to be proud of, so they were proud of how terrible they were. They made T-shirts with “0–20,” their record that time of the season, on the front and wore them to the school dance. There was no discipline, motivation, or commitment.
Just one year later, the team was 16–9–2. The year after, they were 17–4–5, the best record in school history.1 The River ...
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