GRANT HIGH LOSES HART OF ITS FOOTBALL PROGRAM.Byline: RAMONA SHELBURNE Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer Sandy Hart, Grant High of Van Nuys' brave athletic trainer An athletic trainer is an allied (non-physician) health care provider capable of performing immediate and emergency injury management, injury assessment, and rehabilitation. who touched the football team and community with her courage throughout a 15-year fight with bone marrow cancer, died Monday afternoon at the age of 46 from complications following a bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. in Little Rock, Ark. She is survived by her husband, Robert, and son Daniel, a senior defensive back and baseball player at Grant. Funeral services will be held at noon on Sunday at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park. Although she had battled cancer for many years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time loss stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. those who knew her at Grant. Football coach Miguel Gonzalez Miguel Gonzalez (born September 25, 1987 in Miami, Florida) is an American soccer player who plays midfielder for the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer. Gonzalez spent two years in the Santos Laguna youth system, before joining the Bradenton Academy in 2006. informed the team of Hart's passing at school on Tuesday, and said many of the players seemed shocked. ``She just had this resolve, this inner strength to just shrug things off,'' Gonzalez said. ``Some people, when they're sick, you're like, `You should go home and rest, take care of yourself.' Not Sandy. She had to miss some time in the middle of the year to get treatment, and she came back and went right to work. She never even talked about it. ``So when this news came in, you're like, `What? This isn't supposed to happen.' She said she'd be back in January and you believed her.'' Gonzalez had so much faith in Hart's toughness that he postponed the team's football banquet until she was due to return in January. Although her official title was ``volunteer trainer,'' she became more than that in the eyes of Grant's athletes. Senior co-captain Tim Cedillo recalled a time in the beginning of the season when Hart helped him recover from an ankle injury. ``After you talked to her, you just felt better,'' Cedillo said. ``She was always so positive. ``None of our injuries could match up to hers. And she was always out there helping us with our little injuries when she was going through something like that. I'd see her out there and think, `Forget this. Tape me up and I'm going back out there. If she can deal with cancer, I can deal with a sore ankle.''' Hart was drawn to athletics from a young age, having earned All-City honors in softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' , basketball and volleyball at Fairfax High. In addition to her fight against cancer, she inspired countless deaf people This is an incomplete list of notable deaf people. Important historical figures in deaf history and culture The idea that a person who was deaf could achieve a notable or distinguished status was not common until the latter half of the 18th century, when Abbé Charles-Michel de by becoming the first deaf athletic trainer in California. ``I think part of the reason she was able to shrug off everything and be so strong is that she had already overcome so much being deaf,'' Gonzalez said. ``She was just so positive about everything, so tough.'' Hart had gone to Arkansas in December for a bone marrow transplant. At first, it seemed her recovery had gone well, but last week her condition began to deteriorate rapidly from complications after surgery. ``I still keep thinking this is a bad dream I'm going to wake up from,'' said Hart's husband, Robert. ``Sandy never talked about death. She never complained. She always just talked about life and enjoying every minute of it.'' Those who would like to pay tribute to Sandy Hart can visit her Web site: www.carepages.com. Enter the username The name you use to identify yourself when logging into a computer system or online service. Both a username (user ID) and a password are required. In an Internet e-mail address, the username is the left part before the @ sign. For example, KARENB is the username in karenb@mycompany. : hartbunch and password: care4me. ramona.shelburne@dailynews.com (818) 713-3617 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) HART |
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