Injured RB broke the C5 vertebra in his neck on Sept. 1
By Marc Raimondi / SNY.tv
Sep 15, 2009
By Marc Raimondi / SNY.tv
Sep 15, 2009
NEW YORK -- It was an extremely unusual sight before a Public Schools Athletic League football game: both teams, coaches and all, gathered together at the 50-yard line, got down on one knee and prayed.
"I probably can get in trouble for it, but I've done worse things," Flushing HS coach Jim DeSantis said. "I know the whole church and state thing. This is bigger than us."
On Sept. 1, one week before the regular season was to begin, Flushing senior Blake Hunt broke the C5 vertebra in his neck in a scrimmage against Erasmus Hall Campus. The running back/defensive back is resting in fair condition at New York Hospital Queens in Flushing, but has no movement in his legs or right arm. Doctors are unsure if he will ever walk again.
"I can't let this beat me down, I'm definitely not going to," Hunt said from his room in the intensive care unit of the pediatrics ward this week, a few days before his Red Devils teammates would take the field for the first time in a varsity game.
"I probably can get in trouble for it, but I've done worse things," Flushing HS coach Jim DeSantis said. "I know the whole church and state thing. This is bigger than us."
On Sept. 1, one week before the regular season was to begin, Flushing senior Blake Hunt broke the C5 vertebra in his neck in a scrimmage against Erasmus Hall Campus. The running back/defensive back is resting in fair condition at New York Hospital Queens in Flushing, but has no movement in his legs or right arm. Doctors are unsure if he will ever walk again.
"I can't let this beat me down, I'm definitely not going to," Hunt said from his room in the intensive care unit of the pediatrics ward this week, a few days before his Red Devils teammates would take the field for the first time in a varsity game.
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