Even though my direct involvement in track and field in very minimal these days, I am around elite athletes more than most. Most years, at a minimum I go to the NCAA Camps, USATF Nationals, Millrose, Penn Relays and the NON high school meet. Over the years, I have been to 3 Olympics, all of the GL/DL meets except for Doha and Shanghai, World Cross, IAAF Relays, so forth and so on. I run into athletes on the plane, hotels and just hanging out. I have had a lot of what I call brief encounters. In all of those years, I have only met a hand full of athletes who openly expressed their love for our sport and how they want to give back; one was Ryan Shay and another was David Torrence. It is ironic and sad that the athletes who gave so much and had so much more to give are taken away too soon. My hope is that David is memorialized in a way that demonstrates the importance and encourages other athletes to be good stewards of our sport.