Sarah Landauer scored 83 goals by her sophomore year and had over 100 goals after her junior season. She was a highly-recruited forward who played club soccer for the Creeks Clash (Jacksonville) U-17 Girls team in the Region III Premier League. CESA and SCU-MP played against her this past fall season.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110310/ARTICLES/110309425?p=1&tc=pg

so very tragic and sad.

when reading the article this statement jumped out at me - why was she still competing and how could she have been cleared?

"She previously had lost consciousness Feb. 24 during practice at Percy Beard Track on the University of Florida campus. A bystander performed CPR on Landauer, and the teen was revived, according to a University Police Department report."

There are probably going to be a lot of lawyers asking a lot of school officials and medical professionals some tough questions in Gainesville.

One of my daughter's college teammates at Newberry is on the high school coaching staff down there and everyone is crushed. This girls was amazing. Great student, great athlete......great person.

The fact that she was "medically cleared" makes me really wonder how exactly she was "cleared." A majority of sudden death in young athletes is caused by a heart condition, often hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which can cause suspicious findings on EKGs and is generally pretty easily seen on an echocardiogram. This may have had nothing to do with her particular case, but with a prior episode requiring CPR, if nothing less than a full cardiac work-up and other testing were done on her...then this was not only a tragedy, but a preventable tragedy =(.

My thoughts go out to her friends and family in this difficult time.