Kendric Price had seemingly done everything right. He grew up on Greenwood Street in Dorchester, graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, and got a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he earned his bachelor's degree in just three years.
"When I started, we were one of the bottom four teams in [B1 - Japan's top division]. The other three were relegated to second and third division, and we have become a solid program that's in a playoff hunt and has tons of runway ahead of us for the future."