“Kids like Kyle is the reason we coach,” athletic director and head football coach Joe Krauskopf said.
    Kyle Jonas Adams (1987-2006) was a junior at Santa Fe High School, successful at athletics and academics. He was ranked 12th in his class as of his sophomore year.
    Kyle played quarterback at Santa Fe High School during the 2005 season - completing 47 passes for 671 yards - and helping his team to the playoffs for only the second time in school history. His father, Ken, helped coach him in both football and baseball.
    Krauskopf said that Kyle “Never complained, but just went out and did his job.”
    By all accounts, Kyle was the kind of student, athlete, and human being that all would like to be around. Numerous students and teachers have nothing but good things to say about Kyle.
    His parents pointed out that they have continually been visited by Kyle’s best friend, Aaron Gist, and by many other friends.
“I’ve coached many of his friends,” Ken said, showing the relationship that Ken and Kyle had.
    His parents talk about what kind of child Kyle was with pride. Ken mentioned that he could have trusted Kyle with his debit card, knowing that Kyle would have only spent what he needed to, and would have returned the card.
    Kyle’s parents talked about the outpouring of love and support that the Santa Fe community has provided, saying that everyone has been very supportive.
    Kyle’s room is filled with things related to and about Kyle: notebooks with narratives written by people that knew him, his baseball jersey, pictures, plants, and other tokens of esteem.
    “We just don’t know what to do with it all,’ Ken said.
“He was a great kid,” Krauskopf said.
    Kyle is not the first student death that Krauskopf has dealt with. Krauskopf has buried five students over the years. “This one has affected me as much as the one in 1991.”
    But driving home from his girlfriend’s home in Friendswood the night of March 25, he was killed in a single-car accident two-and-a-half miles from his home in Santa Fe. There was no alcohol or drugs involved in the accident.
    There is a small garden dedicated to Kyle across the street from his parent’s home in Santa Fe.
    A memorial scholarship fund has been established in Kyle’s name, and the scholarship will be awarded “based on ethics and morals,” Ken said. “It will not just go to an athlete.”
    “He was a fine human being,” Krauskopf said.

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