There is no playbook to instruct how athletic departments are to respond to the tragic death of one of their athletes
Memorial flowers and notes line walkway at Scott Stadium after three football players were killed in a shooting on the grounds of the University of Virginia Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022, in Charlottesville. Va. Police awoke Indiana State athletic director Sherard Clinksdale early on Aug. 21 with tragic news. Two of the university’s football players, and another student, had died in a car accident.
Grief struck the University of Virginia earlier this week. Three members of the football team were shot and killed on a bus returning to the Charlottesville campus from Washington. Two other students, one of them also a football player, were wounded. Classes, academic activities and the university's Saturday home game against Coastal Carolina were canceled, and the school made counselors and therapy dogs available. Temporary memorials with flowers and stuffed animals have sprung up on campus throughout the week, including at Scott Stadium, where the Cavaliers football team plays.
“In our first meeting with the student athletes, we had a lot of counselors on hand that were there and available to work with the student athletes," Williams said."And not only our football student athletes — with all of our student athletes.”just outside of Indiana State's Terre Haute campus, he went to the home of head coach Curt Mallory to break the sad news to him.
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