For countless nights, she stays up until two in the morning on a bike in the basement, or gets in an extra swim before school. No one sees the mental struggle or the times when sleep is impossible and she vomits at night because her body cannot take it anymore; they are the experiences such as these...

Don’t Pick 16 Seeds. Let’s start with the obvious don’t pick a 16 seed to beat a 1 seed! Since the Brackets expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the 16 seeds are 0-124. Even if you manage to pick the miracle and a 16 seed defeats a 1 seed it won’t help you too much to win your bracket pool....