Some other schools backed off because I got a little homesick [at New Hampton]. I visited and it was similar [to Lithuania]. The team took to me well, and it felt like home away from home.

The NCAA tournament, the championship.

I don't think it'll ever be 100 percent, but I've learned to take it day by day and to live with it. Before the injury, the plan was to play for as long as I could, and I'd still like to.

When I came in a as a freshman, we had a similar situation: there weren't many seniors. I try to set that same kind of example. They can see how I carry myself, and what I've accomplished as something to look at in the future of what they can accomplish.

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Do they have schools?