Stanford Soccer player Katie Meyer's family mourns their death in Espn Doc (exclusive)

The life and death of Katie Meyer, the Stanford football player, who died through suicide at the age of 22 in 2022, is the subject of a new ESPN E60 Episode with the title Save: The Katie Meyer story.

An exclusive look at the episode, which is shared with People, shows Meyer's promising career on the field and her joy in representing Stanford, but also deals with the consequences of her tragic death and the question of why her parents submitted an illegal death penalty against the university.

The clip begins with Audio from Meyers Podcast, who was recorded before her death, as she tells the audience: “There were many debates about how I wanted to make this first episode. I knew that I wanted to tell my story. Welcome to Episode 1 of Be the mentality. I am your host, Katie Meyer. ”

The clip then shows footage of Katie, who speaks with her father Steve for the first episode of Be the mentality. She turns to him and says: “My first guest is my father today”, before the film material in the clip turns into Vintage home videos of Katie as a child, and then changes to moments when she grew up that she grew up and follows her college soccer career in Stanford, where she was the startingory and team captain.

The clip then returns to film material from Katies Podcast, in which she asks Steve: “I chewed: What do you think is a lesson that someone just has to learn?”

Katie, who hoped to study at Stanford Law School after completing her Bachelor's degree, was found on March 1, 2022, just months before her graduation, in a residence in campus.

“It was taken from there from there. That didn't happen,” says Steve in the clip, while Katie's mother Gina says Tränenreich: “It is the nightmare of every parent. She is not our child.”

The lawsuit submitted by Gina and Steve in 2022 that Stanford had negligently supported Katie after having issued a disciplinary accusation against them Sports illustrated. The disciplinary accusation meant that Katie's diploma was brought to the queue for three months.

Katie is supposed to “immediately answered the e -mail, in which she expressed how” shocked and disturbed “she was overloaded and threatened with the distance of the university,” the complaint of 2022 said.

The complaint also claims that “Stanford's disciplinary order after the business time and the ruthless nature and type of submission to Katie left Katie an acute stress response that led to her suicide.”

Stanford has contested any misconduct or liability in Meyer's death. The deputy vice president of the University of External Communication, Dee Mostofi, previously said in a statement: “The Stanford community continues to mourn the tragic death of Katie and we sympathize with her family for the unimaginable pain that Katie's death caused her.

The case will be referred to on April 13, 2026 on the website of the Superior of California Santa Clara County by Santa Clara County USA Today.

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ESPNS E60 The episode about Meyer and her family will also show Katies sisters Sam and Siena together with Gina and Steve. Save: The Katie Meyer story is reported by the two-time Olympic gold medalist Julie Foudy and staged and produced by the former collegiate soccer player of the Division 1 Jennifer Karson-Strauss.

Save: The Katie Meyer story Premiere on Saturday, May 10th, at 11:00 a.m. on ESPN and will also stream on ESPN+.

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