Lindy Clark still remembers the first time Eric Montross walked into her life.
Clark was sitting with her 15-year-old son, Jason, in a room at UNC Hospital--before there was a freestanding UNC Children's Hospital--in 1993. Her son was battling cancer, and the days can get very repetitive inside a hospital. That's when Montross, the starting center on Carolina's newly minted championship team, entered the room.
"Jason was in the bed and I was in the chair," Lindy remembers today. "Eric knocked, and we were expecting a nurse or a doctor. He came in, and he had to bend his head just to enter the room because he's so tall.