Just a year ago, Claire Stern's life changed forever with the diagnosis of a rare genetic heart condition. Since then, the Maple Grove basketball alum turned that diagnosis into a passion by striving to fund research that could change others' lives for the better.
Stern was at home last June after finishing her first year playing a successful season of Division I basketball at North Dakota State University. She began having what she later learned were a series of heart attacks.
At the hospital, doctors determined her heart was…