The Fresno companion case — the syndrome's second-worst instance

texture · UNDATED (afterlife; recounted 8 Nov YDAU)

• When: UNDATED (a past circuit case, recounted at the I-Day screening, 8 Nov YDAU)
• What: "Next to Clipperton, the most historically ghastly instance of this syndrome" of talented juniors who cannot bear finally winning: an unaffiliated Fresno kid, coached by his architect/draftsman father, won the Pacific Coast Hardcourt Boys 18's, came home that night, and drank a glass of Nestlé's Quik laced with the sodium cyanide his dad used for drafting ink — dying, then killing in cascade his father, his mother, and his six CPR-trained siblings, each poisoned trying mouth-to-mouth on the last. The case is one narrated reason accredited academies must keep a Ph.D. counselor on staff (E.T.A.'s being the near-useless Dolores Rusk) to screen athletes for lethal reactions to reaching the level they were pointed at.