June 9, 2011 Dirk Knudsen WashingtonPreps.com Editor Dirk Knudsen; Washingtonpreps.com Randy Newman with his son Matthew Celebrate life at a Seahawks Game 1 1/2 years after Newman nearly lost his life                   This week two very special young men will graduate from their respective High Schools in Washington State.  Albeit both of them are late in doing so and not the same young men that they were when they started out.  Thye are much stronger then anyone could have ever dreamed.  It will be with a full heart that those paying attention will witness Zackery Lystedt and Matthew Newman cross the podium to receive their diploma tomorrow. For Lystedt he will graduate after 5 grueling years of dealing with the damage left in the wake of a severe brain injury he received as a youth football player in the Tahoma school district.  But he will make it and if all goes … [Read more...]