Illinois HS sports: Track athlete left paralyzed after freak accident

Illinois The high school athletes suffered from an unimaginable injury while he was heating the triple jump in a meeting last month.
Dylan Westcott, from Rock Fols Secondary SchoolBreaking his neck in a strange accident, leaving him with paralysis from the chest to the bottom. The 18 -year -old was rehabilitated in Sherley Ryan Al -Qidra, and was able to sit on a wheelchair about a week ago from the March 15 disaster.
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The high school and field athlete course was left paralyzed after a strange accident. (Fox News)
Eric Pontz, Rock Falls coach in a high school, shared the terrible details in an interview With kwqc-tv.
Pontz said: “He was heating in the triple jump, and he just runs, and while he was passing through the sand, he stumbled either over his feet or over the sand, and it was a kind of stumbling, and it was a kind of running while stumbling, and just fell into the wall.”
Wescott passed within 12 hours of surgery immediately after the accident, according to L. Daily newspaper. He had cages that were entered to stabilize his neck with a paragraph that was replaced with a titanium painting.
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“You go from being an ordinary and happy family with everyone talking about future plans and graduation, a concert – it has been accepted to study to be a veterinary technique after high school – then see it On a wheelchairWestkott’s aunt, Kim Wescott Kelai Day, told the station: “He cannot do many things he used to do.”

Triple jump overview. (Imagn)
The Weskeout family and its coach praised his flexibility.
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Gofundme raised more than $ 22,000 to help medical expenses.
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