Preseason 2016: Those that are here (and those that are not)

As another preseason begins, we start anew with returning team members and incoming freshmen. Each team forges its own identity, and this year's team has begun to form that identity. One of the oddities of the beginning of preseason is the void left by those who have graduated and who are not returning for preseason for the first time after four or five years. It is a void for them, and it is a void for us. Each one leaves a part of themselves in the current team, but as we hand out keys and unpack bags, we miss those who came before while eagerly await what comes ahead for us.