SEQUIM — KayDee Campbell had star potential.
She was an enormously talented athlete who excelled at basketball, softball and even football, which she played with the boys in elementary school.
She was also an inquisitive girl; a child many say had a penchant for asking questions about nearly everything.
“It seemed like every time I gave the girls an instruction, KayDee would ask me why,” said Lance Gardner, who coached her in Junior Little League fastpitch softball this year.
But perhaps the question no one could answer for KayDee was why her life ended Tuesday at age 13, cut short by a car crash Saturday which left her in a coma from which she never recovered.
It’s fitting, though bittersweet, that KayDee — headed this summer toward her first year in high school — was in the middle of her first Little League All-Star state championship series in Snoqualmie.
Her team had just won, and the young outfielder left Saturday for a post-game ride with her mother, Ronda Campbell, and her mother’s boyfriend, Ray Chipman.
The 1995 Oldsmobile in which they were riding crashed into a utility pole on state Highway 169 in Maple Valley.
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