Tracy, reached afterward at her Lincoln hotel, talked about the meetings in detail. The registered nurse from Portland, Oregon, with long dark hair, stopped to dab a tear once in awhile. But she was together — more than ever.

“I feel like a ton of bricks has been lifted off my back,” she said.

Tracy met with Riley from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. She said she asked him every question she had wanted to ask, all these years.

“He answered everything,” Tracy said. “Looking at Riley and Mr. Eichorst, I felt like they got what I was saying. I could look at them and feel like they were receiving what I was saying.”

Tracy said the coach apologized for not doing more research into what had happened and finding out Tracy’s story.

“He said he just knew the players had been arrested and the charges were dropped,” Tracy said. “He knew he had to do something. He didn’t consider the impact on my life. He didn’t do any research into it. He said he didn’t know any of the specifics.

“I do believe Coach Riley. I did not feel any deception coming from him. He said if he had known, he would have done something. That that would not happen today.”