How did you hear the news? I remember like it was yesterday. My dad was yelling from a different room to turn on ESPN. It was early evening on the 19th, when we did Chris Street's picture was on the screen and ESPN was covering the story. RIP Chris Street
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Mom woke me up very early to tell me before she went to work instead of me waking up to my alarm. Very sad and emotional time.
I heard on the news. I was in high school. one of those events I wont ever forget. I think Chris was a kid who a lot of us could try to emulate. He wasnt the most athletic but outworked everyone else and seemed like a good dude. I still glance over to that intersection off the highway every time I drive thru iowa city.
Was on the freshman bball team and our coach gave myself and a friend a ride to a varsity away game. When we got back to his office to call for a ride my mom told me on the phone and I told them. I'll never forget the look on Coach's face, he ended up being the varsity coach for a long time.
My dad sat next to his parents a couple times when he played us in HS and got to know them a bit so we knew how great the family is. It was devastating.
His sister was playing on the court before us at an Urbandale AAU tourney and he was there towards the end of the season before the accident, my dad was chatting it up with them and tried to get me to get the team to get a pic with him while we were warming up and I didn't want to ask our coach if we could and risk getting in trouble for not being focused on game (coach was ISU guy). Huge regret. Last time I saw him alive.
Definitely one of the saddest days in state history
My dad sat next to his parents a couple times when he played us in HS and got to know them a bit so we knew how great the family is. It was devastating.
His sister was playing on the court before us at an Urbandale AAU tourney and he was there towards the end of the season before the accident, my dad was chatting it up with them and tried to get me to get the team to get a pic with him while we were warming up and I didn't want to ask our coach if we could and risk getting in trouble for not being focused on game (coach was ISU guy). Huge regret. Last time I saw him alive.
Definitely one of the saddest days in state history
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Sitting in a fast food joint with my high school teammates after our basketball game. The AD drove by, saw us, and came in to tell us the news. Will never forget it.
Happening on a Tuesday night probably meant a very similar situation for other high school basketball players in Iowa.
Happening on a Tuesday night probably meant a very similar situation for other high school basketball players in Iowa.
I don't remember how I heard, but I sure as shit remember where I was. I had just moved to Michigan after having graduated from UNI and working around the CF area for a few months. I watched the Michigan State and Michigan games with one of my best friends from Michigan. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
I believe I was asleep and my mom woke me up to tell me. I will never forget the next day at school. Everyone was quiet, kind of in shock about it. Seemed like we all lost a friend even though none of us knew him. Crazy I can still remember after all this time
Home with my family and Andre called and told us. Dre stopped over later that night to tell us what had happened. Chris was the type of person every dad would want his daughter to date.
A friend of mine and I were at his house watching sports on ESPN and they announced it. Completely stunned and saddened.
I was a young Marine in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii...my brother called me up...remember that vividly.
I recall seeing something on the TV news that evening, it may have been ESPN, I don't recall that specifically. But I know I saw the bad news prior to going to bed that night...as I barely slept all night long and I was a deadbeat the next day at work. I remember talking with a friend/co-worker that day about it and I teared up and was truly emotional about his demise.
Although I did not know him personally, he was such a fine young man and athlete that I couldn't get over the feeling of what a loss it was.
I felt real grief on behalf of him, his friends, teammates, family, coaches, etc. Ugh.
Although I did not know him personally, he was such a fine young man and athlete that I couldn't get over the feeling of what a loss it was.
I felt real grief on behalf of him, his friends, teammates, family, coaches, etc. Ugh.
I will never forget it as I knew as soon as they announced that it was a Johnson County truck that hit him I knew I would also know the driver. Sure enough I had worked with the driver a couple years prior, greatest guy you would ever meet and was another life forever changed that night.
Can still picture him furiously waving his arms at the inbounder on the press.
RIP CMS40
RIP CMS40
I was in high school at the time and it was the 10pm local news in Sioux City, IA - lead story to open the broadcast. Didn't sleep a whole lot that night..
Getting off I-380 exit on my way home when it came on the radio.
Newspaper first thing in the morning. Just sat there ... shocked.
Just a horrible tragedy. I would have loved to see him live out a normal life span - he was a special young man, even if he never played basketball again.
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Just a horrible tragedy. I would have loved to see him live out a normal life span - he was a special young man, even if he never played basketball again.
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And who can forget the very next game. Down 17, Val Barnes with the dagger...
The Hawkeyes completed a dramatic 17-point comeback for an overtime at Michigan State in the wake of Chris Street's death. Highlights are from ESPN's coverage on Jan. 28 1993. https://uw-media.hawkcentral.com/embed/video/78997266?placement=snow-embed
The Hawkeyes completed a dramatic 17-point comeback for an overtime at Michigan State in the wake of Chris Street's death. Highlights are from ESPN's coverage on Jan. 28 1993. https://uw-media.hawkcentral.com/embed/video/78997266?placement=snow-embed
I was on business trip in Baton Rouge and had ESPN in my room watching a game when the horrible breaking news was shared.
I lived in southern Indiana with my family at the time and I had to break the news to my sons on what happened the next morning. It was very tough to do as they were huge Iowa fans even at a young age ( I raised them right). It was not fun to do at all. We were all very upset.
I was watching CNN Sports. The Hawk logo appeared in the corner and either Fred Hickman or Nick Charles announced it. I seem to remember SportsCenter starting with the Hawk logo on the background TVs.
Tom Davis had a fantastic eulogy for Chris (anybody have a copy of it?)..."one of the greatest Hawkeyes of all time"
I was a freshman in Rienow. I had a 7:30 Calc class the next morning and I had just come back from taking a shower when my dad called. We had a TV (no cable at that point), but hadn’t turned on the TV yet. Within minutes, most of the floor was piled into my RA’s room watching ESPN and local news.
I was working my part time job delivering pizzas when I came back from a run and my boss said something about an Iowa player being killed in an accident. Totally stunned it was Chris Street.
I was at the Deadwood. Went into the bathroom to take a leak and the guy at the next urinal told me. Total gut punch.
About the same thing with me but it was my dad who woke me up and said he was listening to WHO radio as he usually did back in the day as we somehow could get WMT & WHO… he said Chris Street was hit by a car (he didn’t know the actual story at the time just heard he was pronounced dead) it was super crushing hearing that and til this day I remember it so well and remember how crushing that was to hear
You are full of shit.
On January 19th, 1993, the night Chris died, Andre was living in Lincoln, NE playing for the Huskers and preparing to play a home game the next night against Sacramento State.
Andre's redshirt year at Iowa was 1993-1994.
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