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Staff Writer Virginia Beach
"She was my winner," said Clair LeBlanc, Lisa's coach at Cox. "She was the kind of player who put it on the line every point, every game of the match. That's the way she lived her life." Maholchic, an 18-year old honors student and All-Tidewater player, died Wednesday at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. The car she was riding in with two friends was struck May 24 by a vehicle that may have run a red light not far from the GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater. No one else was seriously injured. She was a wonderful kid," her father, Bob Maholchic, said Thursday. "It's a tragedy beyond comprehension." Lisa would have graduated from Cox on June 17. She was headed to Clarion University in Pennsylvania on a volley-ball scholarship. "She was a dynamic girl who touched a lot of lives," Coach LeBlanc said.
"You only needed to meet her once to know you wanted to know her better."
Lisa had spent only her senior year at Cox after transferring from Chesapeake's
Indian River High, where she played on the volleyball and tennis teams.
Last fall, she had been on of the more special players on a top-ranked
volleyball team in the state - a captain and first-team All-Tidewater selection
for the Falcons - that won 28 games and lost none in winning the state
Group AAA championship.
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"She was addicted to anything to do with competition - cards, tennis, anything,"
said Chris Hariston, who coached Maholchic's club volleyball team for two
years.
"She wasn't just on a team; it was part of her life. She was the most unspoiled teen-ager you could find." Hairston said Maholchic was especially close with her family, including her only sister, Bonnie, 23. "Her sister and her mom were her best friends," Hairston said. "Her dad also meant the world to her." Lisa played volleyball year-round and was a starter for a junior national team that plays out of the Tidewater Volleyball Association. Coach Dave Albaugh said Thursday the team was preparing to go to a tournament last weekend at Penn State when he learned of the car crash. He said Lisa's team-mates dedicated the weekend to her. "We finished second in the championship division and there were 500 teams," he said. "We had a goal and our goal was much higher than winning the tournament." Maholchic was considering a business major at Clarion University with a possible career in sports management. "There was always a positive atmosphere around Lisa," Albaugh said. "She will be missed; there's no doubt about it." A funeral service will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Hollomon-Brown Funeral
Home on Great Neck Road in Virginia Beach.
This article was transcribed from
the June 2nd, 2000
issue of the Virginian-Pilot - pages A1 and A11 by Bob White on July 1st, 2000 |
| Driver: Amanda J. Logsdon,
age 18 of 1000 block of Little Lake Drive
Passengers: Lisa Maholchic and Jennifer L. Myers, age 17, of the 1100 block of Trantwood Ave. Amanda and Jennifer were taken to Beach General Hospital and listed in fair condition. Police spokesman Mike Carey said investigators
believe that the driver of a 1990 Jeep ran a red light and struck a 1989
Mitsubishi sedan carrying the three teens.
From copy written by Staff Writer Tim McGlone of the Virginian-Pilot
This information was paraphrased from
Virginian-Pilot
articles that pre-dated the June 2nd article (see above) |