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Wednesday, January 21, 2004

More on the Alisa Lewis tragedy --

The Daily Cal compares this to Purdue's loss of Tiffany Young in 1999.

A devastated coach Horstmeyer talks about losing "the nicest kid that I have ever coached" -- "She always had a smile on her face. She was always playing with everybody's kids. She did volunteer work. This is somebody that the community is going to miss because she would have made an incredible impact. She was just a great kid."

The loss is being felt around the Pac-10. Greg Bishop talks to coaches Daugherty, Gobrecht, and Smith, and also discusses the reaction in Spokane, where Alisa played her last year of high school ball. For the Huskies, it's been a scary reminder of how they almost lost Kayla Burt.

And, finally, the Chron asks the impossible questions: "How do you deal with something like this? Where do you even start? What do you do next?"