Woman Realized Massive Brother and Mother and father Died in Crash. What Occurred Subsequent (Unique)

• Kelsey McCaffety was at her softball recreation final month when she realized the devastating information that her dad and mom, Clint and Meghan, in addition to her older brother Connor had been killed in a automobile crash
• Her relations have been driving again for certainly one of Connor’s video games, and when Kelsey heard that the athletic director wished to cancel it, she would not hear of it — and he or she wished to be the one to inform the staff
• “Her grandmother, her Mimi, informed me that she’s simply been the rock for the entire household,” coach Brandon Puffer, 49, tells PEOPLE

Kelsey McCaffety was pitching in a softball recreation on March 31, when she was informed the tragic information that her dad and mom and older brother died in a automobile crash.

The day they died, Clint and Meghan McCaffety, together with their son, have been driving from School Station, Texas, the place Connor, 17, had competed in a golf event. They have been on their method again to their hometown of Rogers, the place Connor and his sister each had video games to play in.

After studying what occurred, the varsity district athletic director informed Kelsey, 14, he was going to cancel the sport Connor was slated to pitch in and inform his teammates — however Kelsey would not hear of it, in response to Brandon Puffer, Connor’s personal pitching coach.

“Kelsey mentioned, ‘No, no, no, Connor would need them to complete the sport,’ ” Puffer, who was not there however spoke with the athletic director, tells PEOPLE. “And she or he mentioned, ‘I need to be the one to inform them. These are his brothers.’ ”

“The power of her receiving this information – after which enthusiastic about others and the best way to break it to them,” provides Puffer, 49, a former MLB participant and founding father of GPS Legends Baseball. “Her grandmother, her Mimi, informed me that she’s simply been the rock for the entire household. We’re all praying for her and doing no matter we are able to to assist her.”

Based on her brother’s obituary, Kelsey has many surviving relations, together with a number of units of grandparents in addition to aunts, uncles and cousins.

Puffer met the household about 4 years in the past when Connor was an eighth grader beginning journey baseball. “Each time you noticed them, they have been type,” he says. “They have been all the time collectively.”

“They’re such a tremendous household,” Puffer provides. “It was very regular for Connor and his dad or his mother, to drive an hour and a half for a personal pitching lesson, so possibly they’re spending three hours within the automobile collectively simply to provide Connor that chance to get a bit of higher.”

Clint, who owned a building enterprise, additionally labored round his youngsters’s sports activities schedules.

“That is simply what the household did,” he provides. “They supported one another in every thing Kelsey and Connor wished to do. Clint and Megan simply made it attainable. That was their entire life.”

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Along with sports activities, the siblings have been each energetic in Future Farmers of America, elevating steer — and within the aftermath of the tragedy, a steer was auctioned off on the Milam County Livestock Public sale final week, elevating $180,000 to assist Kelsey.

“I knew we had superb individuals in my household that handed, however I didn’t know the influence that they’d on these individuals. The influence they’d on these individuals, are actually making the influence again onto me,” Kelsey informed CBS affiliate KWTV.

Generally known as “Bubba,” “Massive Puma,” “Massive Mac” and the “Light Big,” the 17-year-old highschool junior, who was six foot 5, was additionally a member of the Nationwide Honor Society — however “baseball was positively his ardour,” says Puffer.

With an eye fixed to the long run, the coach says he was already beginning to discuss to school scouts concerning the “massive teddy bear” who was a tremendous pitcher with superior change-ups.

Puffer is assured Connor would have performed faculty baseball, like his father, and probably gone professional. “He had nice potential,” the coach says, and he was enjoyable to look at.

His coach provides, “You needed to love him.”