Dave Smith was running through all the possible outcomes of the news he had just heard.
Smith, the director of Track and Cross Country at Oklahoma State, received a phone call Monday night after 8 p.m. from one of the university athletic trainers. The news from the other side of the line was grim.
Smith sat down in his house, prepared for the worst. Smith has lost three runners in his career as a coach and knew that late night phone calls typically didn’t have positive results.
“I just sat down immediately and said, ‘No, what happened,”’ Smith said.