At some level, every high school athlete experiences the transition when attending an NCAA university with an emphasis in athletics. You may have come from across the street at Waiakea, but the world isn’t quite the same anymore.
Not as many teachers and parents looking over your shoulder is a new kind of freedom, but it gets pinched by the knowledge that you are now in control of your future in a more serious way than ever before.
In this on-going dance of gaining maturity and restraint while pursuing a passion, few of them wind up with the sort of college career experienced by University of Hawaii at Hilo midfielder Adam Colton.