Indiana State receiver Dante Hendrix says he sees his team healing slowly since a car crash killed two teammates and injured two others two weeks ago.
Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday.Indiana State receiver Dante Hendrix sees the slow, steady steps his teammates have taken since a program-changing tragedy nearly two weeks ago.
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. They have been released from a hospital. "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.
Familiar mottos such as "March On" and "All In" have different meanings now and are reminders of how much has changed. So did last Thursday's opener. Following a pregame moment of silence, the defense helped Indiana State hang on for an emotional 17-14 overtime victory over North Alabama.