The boy walked onto the field with butterflies of excitement, he loved the game. The rush of being on the field and the feeling he got when he made that big tackle.
Pete Stenhoff, 17, was that boy. Until the thrill of ramming his head into the ball carriers chest cracked his vertebrae in his spine. He is now confined to a wheelchair for life. He weighed 210 pounds; now he weighs 172 pounds. He didn’t graduate with his class but he is trying to get his diploma through correspondence courses.
This is not an uncommon injury. There are 20,000 injuries in high school football each year, 12 percent of them permanently disable the victims. Thirteen youths died last year. Thirty-five percent of the injuries are to the neck or head. Most critics blame the helmet.
“I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football,” Stenhoff adds, “I just wish I would have known just how bad it could be.”
1 comment:
I think you've got the idea, but your lead still needs work.
Your first sentence is a run-on sentence. Your second sentence is a sentence fragment.
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