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PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The 16-year-old son of Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer is doing well after being hurt in an automobile accident last month that left him in a coma for two days.
Justin Stringer has been treated on an outpatient basis at JFK
Medical Center in Edison since being released from Robert Wood
Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick late last month.
He was a passenger in the back seat of a sports utility vehicle
when it was hit by another vehicle in early September. Stringer's
cousin and the girlfriend of his brother, David, were in the front
seat and were not seriously injured.
"He's doing very well," C. Vivian Stringer said. "He
shouldn't be doing anywhere near what he's doing. When someone
suffers a brain injury, it's a very devastating thing.
"I've had a chance to sit there and watch people who can't feed
themselves or tie a shoe," she added Wednesday during media day
for the Scarlet Knights, who earned a berth in last year's Final
Four. "I am extremely grateful to the Lord because He really spared Justin's life."
Stringer said it has been hard concentrating on basketball since her son was injured.
"My attitude is that I'm here to coach basketball, and I want nothing less than the best," Stringer said.
"I'm a perfectionist in that respect, and while I'm on the court, I'm going to drive and push," she added. "But I know where its place is in my mind. I just know where it is. When I make the statement that I have not been in tune with what is happening here
with our basketball team, it's very true."
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