fredmiranda.com
Login

Moderated by: Fred Miranda
Sports Corner Rules
Sports Corner Resource
  

FM Forums | Sports Corner | Join Upload & Sell

  

Archive 2012 · inspirational HS QB amputee

  
 
clarence3
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #1 · inspirational HS QB amputee


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.

But then I read the back story...

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/sports/2012/sep/06/prosthetic-leg-rainey-returns-field-woodberry-fore-ar-2184255/

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
...Show more

So after watching Oscar Pistorius run in the Olympics, then we had a kid from my son's high school who lost his legs in the war win a medal in the Paralympics...
http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/lovettsville_veteran_wins_bronze_in_paralympics898/

Quite a story to have a high school quarterback returning to the field only a year after losing his leg in a game, so I agreed to cover the game.

Jacob played one series in the first quarter, a short pass and a couple of hand-offs on a touchdown drive.

CBS Sports has a link to my pictures on their home page and MaxPreps is running the photos as their main story:
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/7QY3evGG9ECgJf767J1FFw/photos--amputee-quarterback-jacob-rainey-takes-the-field.htm

1. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7077.jpg

2. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7088.jpg

3. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7090.jpg

4. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7149.jpg

5. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7172.jpg

6. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7227.jpg

7. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7271.jpg





Edited on Sep 08, 2012 at 08:00 PM · View previous versions


Sep 08, 2012 at 06:29 PM
clarence3
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #2 · inspirational HS QB amputee


8. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7286.jpg

9. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7320.jpg

10. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7325.jpg

11. yes, the horizon is off, but I was laying on my back and don't have any room on the sides to work with
http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7329.jpg

12. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7343.jpg

13. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7374.jpg

14. http://loco-photo.com/images/2012-09-07_7379.jpg



Sep 08, 2012 at 06:29 PM
andyz
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #3 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Great story. Thanks for sharing.

And I hope your son's team blew the other away so bad it was a boring game there.



Sep 08, 2012 at 09:04 PM
svassh
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #4 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Great story and shots!


Sep 12, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Aqualung
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #5 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Great story, nicely done. Liking #9 & #12.

Chris



Sep 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Matt OHarver
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #6 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Great story and images for the story. On some of the others you have some real horizon issues.


Sep 12, 2012 at 01:07 PM
tmalone893
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #7 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Thats awesome that he got to play. Great pictures also. Just goes to show you how quickly life can change on you.


Sep 12, 2012 at 03:24 PM
mkchang
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #8 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Great story and images. My only critique is that the horizon seems to be off on a lot of them.


Sep 12, 2012 at 03:32 PM
amlsml
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On
p.1 #9 · inspirational HS QB amputee


Nice set , thanks for sharing


Sep 12, 2012 at 10:26 PM
Frank Lauri
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
p.1 #10 · inspirational HS QB amputee


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.



Sep 13, 2012 at 07:45 AM





FM Forums | Sports Corner | Join Upload & Sell

    
 

Welcome back
Log in to your account