i met your mother as roommates. reliving the happy moments. that s what made karlijn feel alive and that s what makes her present. that s what i feel right now. good show to watch as a group. i like that show. she was a champion rower, correct? tell us about her as an athlete. i can t speak to that one. katherine was the one who rode with her. was she good? she was phenomenal. that s what brought us together in the first place. this beautiful magical friendship. rowing started it all. she was a national junior rower from amsterdam and i was on the elite team from the united states. so our first bond was the intensity of rowing. how the body awareness and technique from the dutch was so different from the united states. she taught me a lot.
karlijn was going to be traveling. it wasn t good news. that more than at the airport, and then karlijn s sister had posted about them, that they were in line for the 12:00 malaysian airlines flight. i have called to find out if she knew if she was traveling and unfortunately i think i may have been the one to break the news to her too. yes, absolutely. i had actually received a cnn notification on my phone and i thought it was from the malaysian airlines flight five months ago and rachel called me and said have you seen the news? and i said i got a notification but after talking to her, figuring out, well, there s bound to be hundreds of flights. and we kind of held on to our
seats. i went for a run because i knew that s what karlijn would have wanted me to do. those were excruciating hours. the news came and we cried and the fact that we re here now and sharing her story and being together, it is pretty heart-warming. do you feel, i ve had several people close to me die including my father and my stepfather, my grandmother and others. do you feel her presence? at moments, even in the beginning i could feel absolutely. i keep reliving memories that we shared together. we re in our mid 20s. we haven t really experienced grief. and those are themes that i haven t thought about and i keep asking myself quiz. what can i do to feel her? to feel her presence? that s reliving the stories that we shared, the wine and the cheese nights and watching how
the department chair says she was fantastic at. is she was very outgoing, very straightforward. she smiles a lot she smiled a lot. the dutch citizen was taking a few weeks off from her studies to visit family and travel. her family posted the news on karlijn s facebook page saying our beautiful, daughter was in the plane that crashed together with her boyfriend laurens. we grieve for rarlijin, cowell and their futures they had together. she was such a beginin can person. she always was honest with you, even if it was something you didn t want to hear. but she you could always tell that she cared very much. this, to me, is an act of courtess and terrorism.
she was always very calm, actually. she kept up the spirit. as the investigation begins, there remain many heavy hearts in the u.s. heartland today. karlijn keijzer was a 27-year-old student, a collegiate athlete and someone who friends say excelled at just about everything she did. sarah, how is the campus at this moment talking about what has happened here to karlijn? reporter: it is very subdued as people learn more about the loss of this incredibly talented young woman. karlijn was pursuing a doctorate in chemistry. professors say others were inspired by her passion for her field of science, and its ability to improve lives.