CSN Log
September 17th, 2011, 12:40 PM
09-17-2011 01:16 PM
Tirrell Rennie had just finished one of those wildly popular two-a-day summer practice sessions when he checked his phone messages. The no-nonsense voice in his ear told him to call home immediately.
If that weren’t alarming enough, people were crying in the background. A 22-year-old senior from the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area, Rennie is the star quarterback for the second-ranked University of Northern Iowa football team. On fall Saturdays he spends his time running and passing for big yardage and dodging menacing tacklers.
But there was no running from this. On Aug. 15, less than three weeks from UNI’s opening game at Iowa State University, Rennie’s half brother, Chase Walsh, 28, of Atlanta, died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Full story » (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2011/09/17/tragedy-leaves-uni-s-rennie?blog=2#more7680)
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Tirrell Rennie had just finished one of those wildly popular two-a-day summer practice sessions when he checked his phone messages. The no-nonsense voice in his ear told him to call home immediately.
If that weren’t alarming enough, people were crying in the background. A 22-year-old senior from the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area, Rennie is the star quarterback for the second-ranked University of Northern Iowa football team. On fall Saturdays he spends his time running and passing for big yardage and dodging menacing tacklers.
But there was no running from this. On Aug. 15, less than three weeks from UNI’s opening game at Iowa State University, Rennie’s half brother, Chase Walsh, 28, of Atlanta, died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Full story » (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2011/09/17/tragedy-leaves-uni-s-rennie?blog=2#more7680)
More... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2011/09/17/tragedy-leaves-uni-s-rennie?blog=2)