We're losing one of our finest LD debaters and perhaps one of the best kids my wife has ever coached to a sudden on-set of viral meningitis. Although there is always hope - all of the information we've heard has been grim to put it favorably.

Our "kids" are the closest things we have to children of our own. This is incredibly tragic, we're in nothing less than shock.

UPDATE: Lost.

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