The cell phone buzzed once, twice, and a third time, awakening Clayton King on a Wednesday morning in mid-April. King, a standout golfer and graduate of Uvalde High School, tried to tune out the sound. But when it was unrelenting, he concluded the alerts likely signified something serious. “I didn’t really figure out why my […]

Krystle Brydon understood what she was getting herself into. Brydon, a former Clark High School volleyball standout, knew the inherent danger of being an emergency room nurse. She grasped the long hours, chaos, panic, distress and even death. And she didn’t blink. Brydon, 34, is currently on a 13-week assignment as a traveling ER nurse […]

Belen Cusi couldn’t sleep. Then again, that’s always been the case for her when it came to preparing to travel. But this was different for Cusi, a former Churchill High School basketball player. The insomnia wasn’t a result of the common anxiety that came with taking a trip, such as deciding on the best driving […]

Hunter Domanski was walking down an aisle last month at a national warehouse store in Baton Rouge, La., with LSU beach volleyball teammates Kristen Nuss and Ashlyn Rasnick-Pope when the gut punch was delivered via social media. The NCAA, the governing body of intercollegiate athletics, announced on March 12 that it had canceled the seasons […]

Eight years ago, Madison High School soccer standout Jillian Martinez was an onlooker at a celebration commemorating an occasion she hoped she and her teammates would experience firsthand this weekend at Birkelbach Field in Georgetown. Martinez was a fourth-grader in 2012 when her father Larry and his teammates on the 1987 Alamo Heights soccer team […]