A high school student from Richmond, Calif. was hurt in a football game and is now benched for life.
17-year-old Pete Stenhoff a junior at Chula Vista High School rammed his head into the chest of the ball carrier. Stenhoff cracked vertebrae in his spine and is now confined to a wheelchair for life.
“I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football,” Stenhoff says “I wish I would have known just how bad it could be.”
There are 20,000 injuries in high school football each year -- 12 percent of them permanently disabling the victims. Thirteen youths died last year. Thirty-five percent of the injuries are to the neck or head. Most critics blame the helmet.
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That works pretty well. I like "benched for life."
Remember not to start a sentence with a numeral: At 17, Pete Stenhoff, then a junior at Chula Vista High School, rammed his head into the chest of the ball carrier.
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14-2=12/15
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