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Zoe Guilmette saw her AAU teammate dig into her purse and come up with a little. But it wasnt enough.Sure, Ruona Uwusiaba could have gone without that night at Chipotle -- just not when Guilmette was around.When she saw I didnt have enough money for dinner, she bought more food and split her meal with me, said Uwusiaba, a 6-foot-3 post for the Georgia Metros and native of Nigeria. Zoe has a good heart.Uwusiaba didnt mean that ironically, but the unfortunate truth is that Guilmettes heart is precisely the issue at hand.Guilmette, a 6-foot-6 center and rising senior at Harrison (Kennesaw, Georgia), was considering offers from UCLA, Florida, Wake Forest and Belmont last month when she got terrible news. Just as she was making a recruiting trip to UCLA, tests showed that she had a genetic heart condition called arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.ARVD is a progressive heart condition for which there is no cure, but it can be managed. Guilmette takes medication for her condition and is allowed 30 minutes of moderate exercise per day, but basketball would put her at high risk for sudden cardiac death, and so her playing days are over before she got a chance to pick a college.Late last year, her brother, 6-foot-11 Marshall Guilmette, made the equally gut-wrenching decision to give up basketball, despite two years of eligibility remaining as a starting center at East Carolina University. He also has ARVD.Zoe said she has seen a lot of great players but few that she felt could match her passion for basketball. A month after her diagnosis, she still choked up when talking about how her active lifestyle will have to change.I love being outdoors, she said. I love to run. Theres a joy and a peace in running. Its a good time to meditate. We have Kennesaw Mountain -- thats my favorite place to run. Thats a time to connect to nature and also push myself.Guilmette gathered herself at that moment, not wanting to get too emotional.I dont want to get out of shape. I want to be in shape for the rest of my life, she said. Ive always wanted to run a marathon. But now I realize I can still walk a 5K. I just have to refocus and get a new perspective.Devastating news strikes twiceMarshall, 22, and Zoe, 17, are the only two children of 6-foot-3 Laura and 6-foot-7 Todd.Todd played basketball in high school and coached the kids through the end of middle school. The Guilmettes have always been a close family, and Zoe fit right in, routinely going out of her way to show the people in her life that she cared. Every time Marshall had time to visit his family while on break from East Carolina, Zoe busted out Welcome Home banners all over the house.Shes incredible, Marshall said of his sister. Theres not one person who has met her who doesnt love her. Shes the nicest girl you will ever meet.Everything was going great for Marshall and Zoe until March 2015. Thats when Marshall had knee surgery. During his rehabilitation, he started feeling dizzy and a tightness in his chest.One day, feeling his heart rate speeding out of control, Marshall went to his ECU trainer, Nate Clark, who called an ambulance. That led to months of testing and, finally, the ARVD diagnosis.It was awful, Laura said. We were devastated.Mixed with all those emotions, the family felt some relief.The doctors said we were lucky we caught it in time, Laura said. The first symptom is sometimes sudden cardiac death.Because ARVD often runs in the family, Zoe began the lengthy process of tests by experts at Duke and Johns Hopkins.Marshall said finding out his sister had the same condition was sad on so many levels, beginning with the obvious concern for her health. But Marshall said he also was disappointed we wont get to see what type of player she wouldve become in college and beyond.She was a way better player than me, Marshall said. Shes more talented. I had mid-majors recruiting me. Shes had the best schools in the country after her.A new playMarshall, who graduated in May with a degree in business finance, landed a job in sales for Insight Global, a staffing services company.Zoe, who has yet to decide where she will attend college, recently shadowed a physical therapist and is interested in a career helping athletes recover and get back in action. Metros coach Matt Huddleston recently added her to his coaching staff as an assistant for tournaments in Atlanta and Chicago. She loved the experience.In fact, while shadowing the physical therapist, Zoe couldnt stop thinking about coaching. Thats probably a sign, right? she said with a laugh.Huddleston, who said Guilmettes recruitment had been on jet fuel before the ARVD diagnosis, is helping her with the transition.Zoe is one of those kids every college loves, Huddleston said. Shes highly spirited. She thrives on the team concept. I told her, Im going to make you a coach. I gave her a role and duties, and its gone very well.Huddleston said his goal is to get her tuition waived to be a basketball manager at a top university, and there seems to be genuine interest. But coaching was the furthest thing from Guilmettes mind when she first got her diagnosis.I said, Get me away from basketball. I needed a break, she said. I thought it would be hard to sit on the bench and not play. I thought I would be thinking, Why did this happen to me? This is ridiculous.But I just needed time to reinvent myself. Matt has been so great in helping me see that I could still feel that adrenaline and that love for the game as a coach.Guilmette said she was touched by the support she has received from her high school friends and coaches. She was shocked by the love showed by college players and coaches she had met on the recruiting trail.The texts were overwhelming, she said. To see how they have encouraged me was very fulfilling. I realized my life is not defined by my capability to play sports.Guilmette, who has a 3.6 GPA and is a big fan of WNBA star Elena Delle Donne, said her coaching experience has been amazing so far. Uwusiaba, her teammate/player, said Guilmette is already an outstanding coach.Out of everyone, her voice was the loudest one I could hear from the bench, Uwusiaba said. When I would come off the court, she was talking to me like a coach. She said, Its unfortunate that I cant do this anymore, but you can. And you can do better.I can talk about Zoe from morning until night because Ive never met a person like her before. She has an awesome personality. Its hard to find such good people on this earth.Perhaps basketball didnt suffer a loss here. Perhaps Guilmettes destiny is to coach, just sooner rather than later.Whether its coaching, physical therapy or some other endeavor, Guilmette figures to be a force.Im not going to sit around and mourn, she said. I dont like to cry about this. I know there are worse things out there. I dont have any reason to cry. Yeezy Powerphase Calabasas . Jon Montgomerys gold medal in skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre and his subsequent auctioning off of a pitcher of beer in the village square elevated him to folk-hero status. 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BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Jerry Sandusky forcefully asserted his innocence and described his own sexual history Friday during an hour of testimony as he seeks to have his child sexual abuse conviction overturned or be granted a new trial.The former Penn State assistant coach was the first witness called in what is scheduled to be a three-day proceeding that focuses largely on whether he received adequate legal representation during his 2012 trial.He emphatically denied being guilty of sexual abuse and claimed to have never had oral or anal sex with anyone, contradicting victims trial testimony.Absolutely not, that idea is absolutely foreign to me and disgusting, said Sandusky, 72, currently serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence for a 45-count conviction.Sandusky said he was unfamiliar with criminal court proceedings and relied on his lawyers advice in waiving a preliminary hearing, not testifying on his own behalf and making other decisions.He said his lead lawyer at the time, Joe Amendola, told him a preliminary hearing, with testimony from his victims, would add to the publics negative perception of him. But he lost a chance to get more information about the prosecutions case and force witnesses to make on-the-record statements they might contradict at trial.He was out on $250,000 bail and there were concerns prosecutors might seek a higher amount if he did not waive the hearing.Asked Friday if he understood what was occurring, he responded: not totally.I know a lot more now, he said. I couldnt tell you at that point in time the significance of it and what it meant.Another major topic during the hearing was an interview Sandusky gave to NBCs Bob Costas shortly after his arrest. Sandusky said the plan had been for Amendola to go to New York for the interview, but after he arrived there he decided it would be better to have Sandusky call in and assert his innocence.Sandusky said he was unprepared and caught off guard when Costas asked if he was sexually attracted to children. He responded: Sexually attracted, you know, I enjoy young people. I love to be around them. But no, Im not sexually attracted to young bboys.ddddddddddddHe was absolutely surprised, Sandusky testified Friday. I didnt expect anything that happened. I was not in a good emotional state.Amendola testified Friday that he told Sandusky beforehand he did not have to answer every question but did not warn him his words could be used against him at trial, as later occurred.Never in the world did I anticipate that kind of response, Amendola said.During the trial, Amendola told jurors in his opening statement that they would hear from Sandusky. But he testified Friday that he warned Sandusky that taking the stand could be perilous after Sanduskys adopted son Matt alleged to investigators midway through the trial that Sandusky had abused him.Amendola said Sandusky might have then said something that would allow prosecutors to call Matt Sandusky as a rebuttal witness, a risky move that Amendola described as ultimately Sanduskys decision.But Sandusky testified: I was a novice and I assumed that Mr. Amendola was the expert on this and that I would take his advice. If he had given me any indication whatsoever that I should testify I would have testified.The hearing also delved into questions about the identity of the young man known as Victim 2, who former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary testified was abused by Sandusky in a team shower in 2001. A man who claims to be Victim 2 has settled with Penn State, but did not testify.Amendola said Victim 2 first met with his investigators before trial and said Sandusky did nothing wrong, then hired a civil lawyer and made an abuse claim.When he changed his story it raised a lot of questions in my mind ... to the point where he was useless to use, Amendola said.Eight young men testified at trial that they were abused as children by Sandusky, who spent decades at Penn State under head coach Joe Paterno before his retirement in 1999.Sandusky previously lost direct appeals to the states Supreme and Superior courts. The hearing is scheduled for two more days, Aug. 22 and Aug. 23. ' ' '