Ridgewood trainer, athletes make video on concussion awareness
SUNDAY JUNE 10, 2012, 10:47 PM
BY JEFF ROBERTS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Her little white lies had fooled them all.
Kelci Smesko wore them like a disguise — one rooted in denial not deception — along with a disarming smile and happy façade.
The Ridgewood lacrosse and basketball player was desperate for everything to be fine. So the honors student faked it, no matter how depressed she had been left two years ago by post-concussion syndrome.
“I think I did a good job of acting like I was happy,” said Smesko, an All-American in lacrosse headed to Duke. “But it got to a point where I couldn’t do it anymore.
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