Sixteen-year-old Pete Stenhoff is permanently disabled from a football injury last year.
During a high school game, Stenhoff blocked the rival team's ball carrier with his head. That impact cracked the vertebrae in his spine, leaving 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.
That does it! 20/20
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Dotti and you posted to my blog "Seligman Time" in February of this year.
I think the person you were actually responding to is my Uncle Lee C. Seligman, a 1960 graduate of the US Naval Academy.