While playing youth hockey in his native Illinois, Michael W. Obenaufâs teammates voted him âmost likely to be a coachâ one day. âAt the time, I dreamt of playing in the NHL and laughed off the title,â says Obenauf, who eventually realized that his passion for the sport outweighed his skill, and that the NHL was more a pipedream than legitimate career track. With the NHL out, Obenauf moved to Arizona in 2011 to study business at Arizona State University. And though he would move back to the Midwest to complete his bachelorâs degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Obenauf chose Scottsdale as his permanent home, laying down roots and beginning a career in financial services in 2016.