room in two days and didn't know it,
but he was supposed to come to Ann
Arbor later in the week.
Dad and mom knew, and kept very
quiet about it, even on the day of
Stephen's graduation. They'd been in
on a conference call with ESPN in a
parking lot, figuring out details.
"We just sat there and cried," Kristi
Loszewski said. "Then we had to
go home and have graduation, as if
nothing had happened and keep it a
secret for two weeks."
The secret was out when Long
popped in, but Stephen still thought
the camera crew coming into his
home represented a local TV station.
He'd just returned from the hospital
and wanted to beg off on any inter-
views.
Kristi Loszewski recalled: "When
we brought him home from the hos-
pital, he said, 'I don't want to talk to
them. They can come back. I want to
Stephen Loszewski had four caps set out to make a college choice at the end of his recruit-
ment, but there was never a doubt which one he would select.
PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL
