This was supposed to be Macklin Celebrini’s night, as a rare sold-outcrowd showed up to salute the Olympic star. Instead, the player of the game was hometown kid Dustin Wolf.

It’s 7am and Maddie Lewis, 16, is eating cereal in self-absorbed delight. Ignoring my arrival, she doesn’t look up when I sit beside her at the kitchen table. Engrossed in her iPad, she ­replays over ...