Parents of late Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer watch World Cup with 'sadness' and 'joy'

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The parents of late Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer are, like millions of other Americans, passionately cheering on the U.S. women's soccer team at the World Cup, with feelings of conflicting joy and sadness. 'It's a mix,' Katie's father told NBCNews.

The parents of late Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer are, like millions of other Americans, passionately cheering on the U.S. women's soccer team at the World Cup.It's been a little more than 16 months since the couple's daughter, so it's been an emotional roller coaster watching the Americans play on this world stage.

"It's a mix," father Steve Meyer told NBC News on Monday."We miss her dearly and there's a real sadness that she's not with us, that she's not there with them cheering them on. She would've been there one way or another. But there's also some happiness and joy, through her former teammates there, we see her spirit living on."Stanford teammate“I’m proud of them,” Steve Meyer, 55, said of his daughter’s college teammates. “They didn’t have to do that.

 

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