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The quiet kid, the scholarship student, the one everyone underestimated.
School & Underdogs
The institutional fluorescent lights of the Oakridge College dining hall hummed with a low buzz that made my temples throb.
School & Underdogs
By Wednesday night, two nights before finals, I had been in the Halbrook University library for seventeen hours.
School & Underdogs
Mateo Reyes stood on the plain white center podium block under the cool floodlights. His chest rose and fell beneath his fitted heather-grey running shirt.
School & Underdogs
Three weeks before that Tuesday afternoon in the locker-room corridor, I was two points away from earning the starting point-guard spot during varsity…
School & Underdogs
Cool fluorescent lights hummed across the state university indoor gymnasium ceiling.
School & Underdogs
The smell of floor wax and sweat always hung thick inside the wrestling room. On Tuesday afternoon, I cut across the edge toward the physical therapy lab.
School & Underdogs
The fluorescent tubes above the Halvorsen High wrestling gym hummed with a low rattle.
School & Underdogs
At the end of the cafeteria table, Jonah Reyes kept his lunch close.