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How Utah football united through the grief of two players' deaths

SALT LAKE CITY -- Donna Lowe-Stern didn't know exactly what she would say. The day before, Sept. 26, her son Aaron Lowe had been killed. Now she was looking out at a room full of his mourning Utah football teammates. Coach Kyle Whittingham had asked her whether she would like to speak with the team, and she felt it was important for them to hear from her -- for her to express what she thought Aaron's message would have been.

"I would love y'all to stay focused and keep playing because that's what Aaron would want," Lowe-Stern told them.