WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
NOW
Lizzy Stemke is embarking on her first seaso
On July 11, 2004, they got married. Be- cause they were still following up on their pro aspirations, the first year “together’’ was an adventure, too, since they really weren’t together very often.
After getting cut in August by the Red- skins, Kevin went to France to be with Lizzy. While there, he got a call from St. Louis and returned to the states and signed with the Rams in November. “We saw each other for about two months,’’ Kevin said.
“It was a month here and there; it was wild,’’ Lizzy said.
In the spring of 2005, the Rams cut Stemke.
In June of 2005, North Carolina hired Fitzgerald as an assistant volleyball coach. “When Lizzy got the coaching job,’’ Kevin said, “I had been released and was unemployed and I was looking around thinking, ‘What am I going to do next?’’’ Stemke had prepared for that moment when he would have to walk away from football.
“How tough was it?” he posed. “That’s a difficult question, difficult in the sense that it was such a great opportunity to be involved in athletics, playing your sport and making a living doing so. “I think everybody hopes that they can play as long as they can. But that’s also
