Brijette Basden was one of the fastest runners on the Shaw University track team during her tenure.

After reuniting with many of her teammates for homecoming, police say she died in a crash on I-40 .

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Her teammates describe her as sweet, genuine, kind and thoughtful.

“To think about her smile, you can correlate that with what's inside, too,” Symone Wright-Flowers told WRAL.

According to the university athletics website, Basden had been on the team from 2022-2025. Wright-Flowers trained with Basden for about two of those years.

“She had these beautiful, bright eyes...To just be able to look at her and see the kindness that she holds, it radiates,” Wright-Flowers said. “The big, cheesy smile…Brijette, she is going to show every single tooth she had, and we loved

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