Katie Meyer’s family – A Stanford football star who committed suicide in 2022 – detailed their renewed “injury” on the school’s response to her tragic death, which seems to point their finger towards their parents.
Meyer, captain and goalkeeper of the cardinal, committed suicide in March 2022 – a few hours after discovering that she could be expelled for having reversed a hot coffee on a Stanford football player.
“I miss her every second of every day,” said her father Steven in a new ESPN documentary, “Save: The Katie Meyer Story”, which highlights her heartbreaking life and death.
He presents poignant interviews with Meyer’s family and explores the benefits of his suicide.
Meyer’s parents continue Stanford in an unjustified death trial, accusing the school of California of “systematic failures” and dealing with his disciplinary case “negligently and recklessly”.
Towards the end of his fifth and last year, the goalkeeper was charged by the university for the discharge of coffee. Meyer said it was an accident. The football player – who had been accused of having made “an unwanted sexual lead” on one of Meyer’s teammates – said the opposite.
Katie Meyer, captain and goalkeeper of Stanford Cardinal, committed suicide in 2022
Meyer’s parents, Steven (L) and Gina (R), pursue Stanford in an unjustified death trial
A new ESPN documentary “Save: The Katie Meyer Story”, highlights her life and death
But, as the documentary explains, the football star did not place official and insisted that he “did not want any punishment that has an impact on life (of Meyer)”.
But the school nevertheless investigated Meyer for six months and the evening of February 28, 2022, the 22 -year -old woman was informed that her diploma was suspended and that she could be expelled from the school.
That night, Meyer began to “frantically search” online on how to defend himself at the trial. The next morning, she was found dead in her dormitory.
According to the family complaint, Meyer had encountered sports psychologists and “had increased symptoms of depression associated with perceived failure and approved suicidal ideas”.
She also told school that she had been “stressed for months” revealing: “(I am) terrified that an accident will destroy my future”.
But the judicial files show that, in one of their defenses in the trial, Stanford stressed that – shortly before his death – ‘Katie chose to make her last oral presentation on her years before Stanford and grow with controlling parents and pressure to succeed.
This has already twisted the knife for a mourning family. “It hurts my heart … that they walk on this road when we lost our daughter,” said Meyer’s father.
“I don’t really know what they’re going here, to be honest.
The family accuses Stanford of “systematic failures” and dealing with their case “negligently and recklessly”
Stanford also argued that “any reasonable person would consider Katie’s suicide as a very unusual and extraordinary response to the situation”, adding: “The defendants of Stanford did not know and had no reason to expect Katie to act in this way”.
But Meyer’s lawyer insists: “It is undeniable that they knew that their process could cause distress (and) damage.
She said that Stanford had long been “in opinion” after previously “seriously worrying” the disciplinary and judicial processes of the school.
The family had no idea of their daughter’s fight with school officials and his mother Gina told ESPN: “It breaks my heart that we did not know. It breaks my heart. It will always be broken … ‘
Meyer had spoken to his family around 5 p.m. on February 28, which was the last day when she could be charged by the school. She was enthusiastic about spring holidays and, according to her mother, “it was a very normal, normal and wonderful conversation”.
“She seemed great,” he said dad. The next day, however, Steven Meyer received a call. “She’s gone,” it’s said. He hypothesized that she must have had an accident. ‘IIt did not seem possible with her that it would be a suicide ”, he said to ESPN.
He then called his wife, “groans”. ‘IIt was the worst phone call in your life you can imagine. This is the nightmare of all parents, ”says Gina.
But when he looked in the Katie dormitory, there was no proof of “darkness”. ‘NOathing ” said his father. “Just as it was always. Just as it was on the sideTime the day before. Nothing at all.
Gina says, “Never in a million years, this kid was not committing suicide. We were like “How? Why? What happened?”
Katie left a note in which she admitted to being “so much, so frightened”, but the confusion of her parents lingering until they looked at her laptop and find the five -page letter of charge.
“I felt like it was a process of collecting breadcrumbs along the way to find out what happened, and how it happened, and how did we not know,” Gina told Espn.
Meyer was the goalkeeper of National Stanford Cardinal champion in 2019
The family then created a base, Katie’s Save, to “fight for systemic changes in colleges and universities to promote mental health, protect students and prevent suicide”.
They then worked with politicians to create a new law which means that any student going through disciplinary processes is authorized to advise them to support them.
California governor Gavin Newsom signed Katie Meyer’s right in September 2024 but, as a private university, Stanford is not required to adopt him. The trial is expected to be tried in 2026.
“Katie’s death was a tragedy,” said a Stanford official in a statement in USA Today. “It was heartbreaking for her family, for all those who knew her and for our entire community. Although we continue to respond to the disputes brought by the family, this fact does not decrease our deep sympathy for its loss and our continuous support to everyone assigned in our community.
The Daily Mail contacted Stanford to comment.
“ Save – The Katie Meyer Story ” will be broadcast at 11:00 a.m. HE on ESPN on Saturday and broadcasts after ESPN +
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