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Colin Kirst, a goalkeeper, comes to Rutgers after four years at Lehigh.
Connor and Colin Kirst Continuing Family Legacy at Rutgers
Mon Dec 14 2020 | Justin Lafleur | College
Former Rutgers goaltender Kyle Kirst passed away suddenly on June 16, 2015, at the age of 47. He was part of the Scarlet Knights 1990 NCAA tournament team.
For the entire Kirst family his wife, Michelle, and sons Connor, Colin, Cole, C.J. and Caden it’s understandably still very raw.
“My brothers, mother and I are all very, very close,” said Colin Kirst, a goalie who spent four years at Lehigh before transferring to Rutgers to follow in his father s footsteps for the upcoming season. “Honestly, it’s tough to talk about. We wake up every day knowing and carrying it with us. Within these five years, we knew something good would come, but the scar would never heal.”
have across the globe in all of culture, the earliest written stories we have have bullies, terrorists and predators. it s a human condition and it happens all the time. i see it everywhere. we in america do something very different about it, even though it s a secret locker room. we are willing to open it up and face the shame of saying one of ours, an american, thought like that, spoke like that, did that sort of stuff because we know that the only way we re ever going to do anything good about it, the only way we re ever going to change anything is to expose it. coach, former rutgers basketball coach mike rice, fired earlier this year for verbally and physically abusing his players. he talked about his firing. he also talked about the lessons learned last night on abc s 20/20. take a listen. what i went through and everything that i ve learned and