Even at that young age Zach knew that those two truths - all-star athlete and homosexual male - could not exist concurrently.
So, he'd started dating Rebecca, his devoutly Catholic girlfriend who wants to wait to have sex until she's married, during his junior year of high school and never looked back.
But on the last night of a team trip to Rome, on the cusp of his senior season at Northwestern University, a Heisman, a number 1 draft pick and a National Championship, Zach seeks out one.