On his own on the ice and off

The phone rang just before 5 a.m. in the Mattson house in Chanhassen, long before anyone was awake. Mom, came Nick Mattson's weak voice. I'm throwing up. What do I do?

His mother, Julie, wiped the sleep from her eyes. She reminded Nick of the rules of his USA Hockey program. If a player gets sick and has to miss school, it's his responsibility to call the coach himself and tell him.

Nick knew that. But living far from home, being sick and being under all kinds of new pressures, he reverted to instinct: He called his mom.

During his first month in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he had moved to join the under-17 team of USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, Nick had adjusted well to the lively household of his host family. One day, when he was chatting on the phone with his mom, she heard the Schmunk family's three young sons banging on Nick's bedroom door.

Hey, he shouted. I'm talking to my parents. Stop it, or I'll give you a wedgie!

The next thing Julie heard was the little boys squealing and laughing as they ran up the stairs.

But now, a month into the program, the intense routine and long absence from home and family were starting to overwhelm Nick.

He crawled out of bed every day at 6 a.m. and rode to school with teammate Drew Shore. Classes started at 7:10, and at 1:35 p.m. he headed to the rink.

There was no time to make friends, no time to hang out or attend football games. After class, his life became hockey, hockey, hockey.

His grueling daily routine at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube included aerobic workouts on a slide board, a couple of hours of intense practice and a weightlifting session. Nick especially dreaded the days the boxing coach -- a real boot-camp guy, he said -- led them through rigorous cross-training. When all that was done, Nick usually stayed late to shoot pucks. He rarely got home before 7:15 p.m.

The days left Nick so exhausted he usually slept through most of Sunday, his only day off.

He had other things weighing on his mind, too. He had been offered full scholarships to universities in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and he felt pressured to make a decision; coaches of the top teams expected elite players to commit early.

He missed his friends back in Minnesota, who were about to begin their high school hockey seasons.

And he was homesick.

Nick's parents traveled to Marquette, Mich., to see him play in late September. They could tell he was struggling. If we can just get him through October, that would be good, Julie said.

But a week later, Nick was back in Chanhassen, sleeping in his own bed.

Homesick and uncertainty

He wasn't supposed to come home until Dec. 7. But the first weekend of October the team had a Saturday off, and Nick called his parents. I've got to get home. Everybody else on the team is going home. He missed his old school. He missed the guys who'd been his friends for most of his life, so much so that he fired off 4,500 text messages to them in just one month.

He listened wistfully as they talked about homecoming weekend and getting their driver's licenses, teen rites he had either given up or delayed for sport's sake. And as life and hockey grew tougher to navigate, he missed the comfort and security of simply being home.

Kevin and Julie got him a plane ticket and hoped that a quick visit would ease his unhappiness. It did, for the 32 hours he was home.

Mentally and physically drained, Nick spent much of Saturday sleeping, then met up with his old hockey buddies to attend an Upper Midwest Elite League game in New Hope.

But the weekend went by too fast. Sunday, after lunch with his parents and grandparents, he tucked a painting from little sister Ellie into his bag and went right back to the homesickness and the workload and the uncertainty in Michigan.

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