The Kansas State football team will honor the memory of Samantha Scott with a helmet sticker when it takes the field against TCU this weekend.
Scott died from a sudden illness last Saturday at the age of 23 in Manhattan. She was a senior and the top coxswain on the Wildcats’ rowing team this season. A native of Fort Morgan, Colo., she was also an architectural engineering major who earned academic All-Big 12 honors last year while leading the team’s 1v8 and 1v4 boats.
The sudden illness was Lemierre’s Syndrome, a rare and life-threatening bacterial infection that begins in the throat and spreads through lymphatic vessels.