Two crosses have been placed at the scene of the accident, one of which bears a blue-and-white Indiana State pennant and a small teddy bear.įamiliar mottos such as “March On” and “All In” have different meanings now and are reminders of how much has changed.
Indiana State honored its two late teammates with a helmet sticker and by playing last week's season opener in all-white uniforms and all-white helmets. "You've got to talk about what you're feeling because if you don't and you're holding anything back, that's when it can really creep up on you and you never know what can happen.” “They were upset because when we went to the dorms it was very, very fresh,” said Hendrix, adding that some players wrote Post-It notes to their late teammates. Coach Curt Mallory canceled practice while the Sycamores' upperclassmen did everything they could think of to assauge the pain, even taking one teammate to an ice cream shop. According to the county sheriff's report, a wet road, excessive speed and alcohol may have played roles in the single-car accident.īack at Indiana State, players weren't looking for explanations. The group was returning from home in the early morning hours of Aug.
Two redshirt freshmen players - John Moore of Wheaton, Illinois, and Omarion Dixon of Lafayette, Indiana - survived after another student pulled them from the burning wreckage 11 miles from campus, about an hour's drive west of Indianapolis. Jayden Musili of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who attended Indiana State but was not an athlete, also was killed. Hendrix was one of four players who spent nearly 90 minutes inside a freshman dorm after the crash, talking and listening about the two first-year teammates who died: Caleb VanHooser of Liberty Township, Ohio, near Cincinnati and Christian Eubanks of Waukegan, Illinois, in the suburbs north of Chicago. The vocal, sixth-year senior and his teammates quickly adapted. I've never had a teammate or two teammates die like this.”
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“I've been a captain for about three years now and I never really experienced how to lead in this type of situation. “I've never been through anything like this," Hendrix said.
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