• Bragging rights
  • "I'm an athlete"
• Free stuff
  • Uniform, shoes, socks, bags and allowance
• Having a regular set of 'people'
  • "We're the party wherever we go."
• Out-of-town games
• Playing with and against talented and insanely athletic people and learning from them
• The focus
• The routine certainty of how your days are going to go

Welcome to change, bitch.