Sixteen-year-old Pete Stenhoff is permanently disabled from a football injury last year.
In an attempt to block the ball carrier with his head during a high school game, the vertebrae in Stenhoff's spine were cracked. The injury left him confined to a wheelchair and unable to graduate with his Chula Vista High School class.
"I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football," Stenhoff says, then adds, "I wish I would have known just how bad it could be."
Apparently, the risks are high: of the 20,000 high school football injuries every year, 2,400 result in permanent disabilities. More than one-third of those disabilities are caused by injuries to the head and neck.
Steinhoff is currently taking correspondence courses to complete his high school diploma.
Good, except as noted below. 19/20
ReplyDeleteDangling modifier -- his vertebrae didn't try to block the ball carrier, Stenhoff did. (Bonus: Fixing this will also fix the passive voice problem in this sentence.)