124 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 This is a great piece I read today in my weekly SI, and a sad story, by SI's Chris Ballard. Please take time to read it. Helping Kayla Remember by Chris Ballard At first, Kayla Hutcheson figured she'd just busted up her nose. No big deal, right? After all Kayla, a freshman power forward at Walla Walla (Wash.) Community College, had spent much of her life playing through sprained ankles and stitched-up chins. This is a girl who played football through the eighth grade. As a tight end. Against boys. A little blood didn't scare her. So when she banged face-first into teammate Jeni Gabriel on a full-court press drill during practice in October, she tried to walk it off. Even persuaded her coach, Bobbi Hazeltine, to let her run sprints with the rest of the team at the end of practice. "Her fastest time of the year too," says Hazeltine, who clocks such things. (There's a reason Walla Walla was 9--2 at week's end.) But that night, when Kayla got back to the apartment she shares with three teammates, she started feeling all kinds of wrong. Not only did her nose throb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgoguy Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 What an awful thing to have happen. Best wishes to Kayla for the return of her memories. Too bad she wasn't a Jet fan. She could have been spared memories of the last 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS17 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yeah, I read it today just flipping through SI. Very sad story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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