Trinity OC's 8-year-old daughter dies in TX floods

Trinity University said connected Friday nighttime that eight-year-old Kellyanne Lytal, the girl of Tigers violative coordinator Wade Lytal, was confirmed dormant aft being missing since the Guadalupe River floods deed Texas Hill Country past week.

Kellyanne was 1 of the girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summertime campy successful Hunt, Texas. Officials person said 27 campers and counselors died successful the accelerated floodwaters that swamped the campground.

"Our full assemblage grieves with the Lytal family, to whom we widen our deepest sympathies and unwavering support," Trinity University said connected societal media. "We cognize this nonaccomplishment volition beryllium felt crossed our field and beyond."

Trinity is simply a Division III programme successful San Antonio, Texas. For galore Texans, summertime camps successful the Hill Country are a rite of passage, and Wade Lytal, a 2009 postgraduate of Trinity who played violative enactment for the Tigers, posted past Sunday that Kellyanne was missing from the camp, located astir 85 miles distant from their San Antonio home, aft the storm. He included a video of her singing successful her Christmas pageant.

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KSAT-TV successful San Antonio reported that Trinity caput manager Jerheme Urban, on with respective players, had been among the searchers successful the flood-ravaged areas.

Lytal and his wife, Malorie, person different young daughter, Emmalynn.

"She was kind, fearless, silly, compassionate, and a loving person to everyone," the Lytal household said astir Kellyanne successful a connection to Fox Digital. "Even though she was taken from america mode excessively early, we convey God for the 8 magical years we got to stock with her. Our household wants to convey everyone for their prayers and enactment during this hard time. We are everlastingly grateful for the men and women who are assisting successful the Search and Rescue efforts."

By Friday night, the disaster's decease toll had grown to 129 with much than 160 missing.

The Texas floods were a taxable of treatment astatine Big 12 media days this week successful Frisco, Texas, with TCU manager Sonny Dykes and players wearing greenish ribbons successful Camp Mystic's grant and Baylor manager Dave Aranda and Texas Tech manager Joey McGuire speaking astir however hard it's been to process the tragedy.

"Just truthful affected by that arsenic a parent," Aranda said. "It's a parent's worst nightmare, and it's beyond tragedy. The past mates days, I person conscionable truly been struggling with that. My woman and I person been conscionable keeping up with it and I conscionable wanted to accidental that, you know, my bosom is breached and the girls and the families affected are successful my thoughts."