GRANITE FALLS -- Stina Leiseth, 16, was killed Wednesday after the vehicle she was driving rolled and landed upside down in a small stream near her home.

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Leiseth, a junior at Yellow Medicine East High School, died at the Granite Falls Hospital.

YME Principal Karen Norell said Leiseth was a "good kid doing what good kids do" when she was killed Wednesday in the single-car accident that happened just a quarter mile from her parents' rural Granite Falls home.

Personable, academic and someone who came to school "happy, upbeat and ready to go," is how Norell describes the 16-year-old junior. Her death will leave "an unbelievable void" in the tight-knit school and community, Norell said.

Leiseth, a star volleyball player who was also on the track and basketball teams, had the dayoff from school Wednesday for Thanksgiving break, while teachers were having in-service training.

But the basketball team was scheduled to practice at 2 p.m. and then have photos taken, said Norell.

When Leiseth didn't show up by 2:45 p.m. her teammates got worried. It wasn't like Leiseth to be late, said Norell in a telephone interview Thursday evening.

Stina's mother, Becky Leiseth -- a first-grade teacher at YME -- was contacted and went looking for her daughter, along with another YME staff member.

Leiseth's vehicle was found at 3 p.m., upside down in a small stream the intersection of 90th Street Southeast and 20th Avenue Southeast, about six miles north of Granite Falls.

It's a short distance away from where Becky and Rich Leiseth live with their family.

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