MaxPreps e-mailed me yesterday with a special assignment for a football game at a small school a couple of hours away. At first I told them I wasn't interested because I had a pretty good county rivalry scheduled between my son's school and the school where my co-worker's son plays.
With prosthetic leg, Rainey returns to the field for Woodberry Forest
In an instant, life as we know it can change forever. For better or for worse, unexpected events often modify the path of life that each person travels.
For Woodberry Forest student Jacob Rainey, it was on one play in a football scrimmage during the 2011 preseason that changed his.
The highly touted quarterback was hit and suffered a severe knee injury in a scrimmage in Northern Virginia. Rainey's main artery in his right leg had been severed and his leg had to be amputated...
After recovering from the horrifying injury, Rainey, with a prosthetic leg, will return to the field on Friday afternoon as the Tigers take on Benedictine at 4 p.m. The injury occurred on Sept. 3, 2011, a little more than a year ago.”...Show more →
Clarence...thumbs up to you to reconsider and shoot this game because you just don't see special things like this happen too often....a very motivational story on this young man.
On the images.....they are spot on and you did a great job capturing his return to football but I have to agree with the other on the horizons....I don't mean this to be harsh n any way - but they take away from this event and the quality of your work.
