When Mikey Sisselberger walks out onto the field, all he sees is the ball.
All the noise and chaos and movement around him — and it all comes down to a ball, sitting there for him to take.
“I like to not focus on anything around me besides the ball,” the Lehigh face-off star says. “They put the ball down before anything. That’s a great focal point there. You’re not focused on anything around you, the ball’s already set on the ground and you have to line up on it.
“I look right at the ball, don’t focus on anything else, get down in my stance and think to myself, ‘be the quicker guy.’ … I’m just thinking, it’s my ball. You have to get the ball before you can do anything afterwards.”