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Stanford women's volleyball player dies - yvonne - 03-26-2012

Samantha (Sam) Wopat of the women's volleyball team was taken to Stanford Hospital on the 25th with an undisclosed medical emergency, and died today. She was in intensive care from the 25th until her death.

http://www.gostanford.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/032612aac.html

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - fullmetal - 03-26-2012

Heartbreaking :(

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - Gauss - 03-26-2012

My condolences.

I can't even imagine what must feel like for the twin sister-fellow Stanford student-Volleyball team-mate...
Damn onions.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - Griffins78 - 03-26-2012

Oh no!

I agree - it is heart breaking. We're of volleyball fans and from Santa Barbara. thanks for sharing.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - Nan3cy - 03-26-2012

I don't have a clue what to say, except: that poor family. To have an ostensibly very healthy 19-year-old athlete die out of the blue. Wow.


Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - FarmBoy - 03-26-2012

There was a tree at Maples that was covered with notes left by well wishers that I saw when attending NIT games last week. I googled the player name to see if something had happened and could find no news.

Very sad.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - stan01 - 03-26-2012

The Stanford community has been hit hard this year with premature deaths.  Just awful. 

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - needle - 03-26-2012

Truly sad news.

Sam Wopat has a twin, Carly, also on the Stanford volleyball team and a Volleyball Magazine All-American. Here is a feature story about them from The Daily a few months ago.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/10/19/twice-as-nice-wopat-twins-shine-on-off-court-at-stanford/

I hope that Carly can find some joy in her chosen sport, but obviously the circumstances make it very difficult for that to happen easily. Hopefully the best part of team sports, the close bonds developed between players, can help her through this difficult time.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - yvonne - 03-26-2012

Correction: Sam was admitted on the 17th.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - yvonne - 04-02-2012

Sam Wopat memorial service will be 1:30 on Wednesday, April 18 at Mem Chu.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/04/02/sam-wopat-memorial-details-announced/

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - needle - 04-02-2012

The Daily also reported Wopat was hospitalized following an attempt at suicide, I believe for the first time corroborating what had been speculated about in various online comments and no doubt in many real world conversations as well.

Wopat was too much of a public figure for the cause of death to be kept a secret. I hope publishing this fact--assuming The Daily has the story right--doesn't cause the family more distress. When the story broke, I wondered if it was possibly unclear whether Wopat intentionally harmed herself.



Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - fullmetal - 04-02-2012

As sad as that makes me, I can only imagine how much worse her family feels right now. 

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - yvonne - 04-02-2012

Wow. I've witnessed the profound and permanent effect suicide can have on a family.

Re: Stanford women's volleyball player dies - Ferris_Bueller - 04-02-2012

(04-02-2012, 12:25 PM)garvin link Wrote:Do you have a link on that, needle? I can't find anything in the Daily that goes much beyond the original University news release.

Re-read the first para linked by Yvonne above: 
> Reply #9 on: Today at 09:58:18 am