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The Wichita school and athletic communities expressed sadness Friday as word spread that 13-year-old Regan Wheeler had died from injuries she suffered in a golf cart accident Wednesday in Butler County.
Regan, an eighth-grader at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle School, was the daughter of Konnie and Rick Wheeler, who is the Heights High School football coach and athletic director.
"Regan passed from injuries sustained while living life to the fullest, the only way she knew how," Rick Wheeler wrote in a statement Friday. "Regan never met a stranger; family, friends and all who ever met her will miss her."
Regan also leaves behind a sister, Madison.
Regan was critically injured Wednesday evening when she lost control of a golf cart while making a turn on a slope above a creek in the private Fox Lake subdivision, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said. She ran the cart into a barbed- wire fence.
Two other teens accompanying Regan tried, unsuccessfully, to reach her as the golf cart teetered on the edge of the embankment. They called adults for help.
Regan remained trapped for almost half an hour before a Fox Lake resident was able to free her, police said.
Emergency responders said she was unresponsive when they arrived, and she was airlifted to Wesley Medical Center. Hospital officials said she died Friday morning.
The school athletic community is tight-knit, said Marc Haught, a former Heights athletic director who has known Rick Wheeler for 20 years.
"It's a family," he said. "A loss to one person is a loss to the entire family."
Haught said Regan's death hit close to home. He said his son is the same age and shared her energetic personality.
"Regan is and was... happy, full of life, youth," said Haught, who now is the athletic director for the Maize school district.
The investigation of the accident is complete, Murphy said.
"It's just one of those sad, tragic accidents," he said.
Coaches and athletic directors see many young lives end too soon, said Diann Faflick, a South High School counselor. She is married to Wichita public schools athletic director Bill Faflick.
"We see it, and it hurts," Diann Faflick said. "But we never expect it to happen to one of our own."
Crisis counselors will be available to Allison students and staff as students return from spring break Monday.
Counselors also will be at East High School and Price-Harris Communications Magnet Elementary School on Monday. They will help students and staff cope with Monday's deadly turnpike crash that killed four people, including two Wichita students, Yuna Choi, 17, and her brother, Seo-Won Choi, 9. Their sister, Hana Choi, 17, also a Wichita student, was critically injured.
