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Coping With Swimmer’s Sudden Death
By DAN McGRATH
Published: August 10, 2011
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CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — Fred McCullough felt a father’s strongest fears, but
he stopped short of panicking when he learned that his daughter, Amy
McCullough Martich, had been pulled from the water unconscious and taken to
a hospital during the swimming portion of the New York City Triathlon on
Sunday.
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Amy McCullough Martich before the New York City Triathlon on Sunday.
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Martich, 40, had been a swimmer in high school and worked summers as a
lifeguard while growing up in Crystal Lake, Ill., a suburb 40 miles
northwest of Chicago.
“Amy was a swimmer her whole life,” McCullough said. “She trained hard
for this and was in terrific shape. I talked to the emergency room doctor
and the I.C.U. doctor. Because she was so strong and so fit, they thought
she had a good chance to pull through.”
Steve Martich, Amy’s husband and the father of their three children, left
for New York immediately. McCullough and his wife, Karen, Amy’s mother,
made arrangements to go Monday, along with Amy’s brother Todd, who was
visiting with his family from Portland, Ore.
“We wanted to be there when she came to,” Fred McCullough said.
The phone rang in their Crystal Lake home just as a car arrived to take the
McCulloughs to O’Hare International Airport. Amy had died without regaining
consciousness at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. An autopsy was
inconclusive.
“It’s devastating,” Fred McCullough, a retired insurance executive, said
quietly. “To lose her at such a young age, it’s hard to comprehend.”
Martich’s death stunned her friends and colleagues. They remembered her as
a dynamo who balanced career and family and always seemed to cram a day and
a half’s worth of activities into a typical day.
Martich rose to vice president during her seven years at Janus Capital Group
, specializing in mutual funds transactions.
Her work required frequent travel, but Martich kept it from disrupting her
home life.
“She was a hands-on mom, even from the road,” her Janus colleague Michelin
Sharp said. “She was my rock, my mentor here.”
Amy McCullough met her future husband, Steve Martich, while they were
undergraduates at Purdue. They were raising Sarah, 10; Kelly, 8; and Justin,
5, in Elmhurst, Ill., and were active in the Epiphany Lutheran Church. Amy
sang in the choir and helped manage church finances.
“Her family came first,” said Todd McCullough, 37, who works as a software
engineer. “She’d leave for her appointments early, before the kids went
to school, and try to be back before they got home, so they wouldn’t know
she was gone.”
Martich threw herself into triathlon training with vigor and competed in her
first event in Naperville, Ill., in June.
“Amy was a competitive person, but I think it had more to do with fitness
and staying in shape,” Todd McCullough said. “And the camaraderie.”
She was eager to participate in the New York event because Janus was a
sponsor. Martich was responsible for the 1,500-meter swim, and her
colleagues would handle the 40-kilometer bike race and the 10-kilometer run.
“She was totally at home in the water,” Sharp recalled.
Travis McKay, a Crystal Lake native and a former colleague of Martich’s,
said: “Amy really put a lot into her training — she was at the top of her
game as far as fitness goes. And she was always an unbelievable swimmer.
That’s why this is so shocking, that she’d have trouble with the swimming
part.”
Besides Martich, a 64-year-old New Jersey man also died after being pulled
unconscious from the Hudson during the swimming portion of the triathlon.
Triathlon officials said Monday that they would review procedures for the
race, especially those involving the swimming portion. An overwhelming
majority of deaths in triathlons occur during the swim.
A version of this article appeared in print on August 11, 2011, on page B19
of the New York edition with the headline: Coping With Swimmer’s Sudden
Death. | j***y
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更坚定了我明天打酱油的决心
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: Coping With Swimmer’s Sudden Death
: By DAN McGRATH
: Published: August 10, 2011
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发帖数: 831 | 3 祝你比赛顺利
前段时间的腿伤好了？
【在 j***y 的大作中提到】
: kao,
: 更坚定了我明天打酱油的决心
| j***y
发帖数: 5098 | 4 多谢，
伤是好了，不过还是不敢跑长距离
【在 l*********n 的大作中提到】
: 祝你比赛顺利
: 前段时间的腿伤好了？
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