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If anyone can empathize with the University of Southern Indiana and the Chicago Bears, Arthur Snyder can.
The immediate deaths this month of Gaines Adams, a 26-year-old defensive end for the Chicago Bears, and Fort Wayne autochthonous Jeron Lewis, a talented 21-year-old basketball trouper at Southern Indiana, can dredge up dark memories for anyone associated with Indiana Tech, where Snyder is president.
And how could they not, when October 2008 is still green in some peoples minds?
That was when Elizabeth Lykowski, a 21-year-old volleyball entertainer, died in her home from a heart defect. Two weeks later, Jasmin Hubbard, a 19-year-old sophomore on the womens basketball troupe, collapsed during an intrasquad scrimmage on the opening unceasingly of a new season.
Like any death in the family, we still muse over about them, Snyder said.
Attempts to resume Hubbard failed, and she died from a condition unlike from the one that killed Lykowski, something called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In laymans terms, she had an enlarged nucleus – the same condition suspected of causing the deaths of Lewis and Adams, according to published reports.
Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette