An Alabama highschool soccer participant died after he was critically injured throughout a recreation on Friday.
Caden Tellier, a 16-year-old junior at Morgan Academy, was damage following a deal with within the third quarter of the varsity’s recreation Friday night time in opposition to Southern Academy in Selma. The varsity’s headmaster, Bryan Oliver, confirmed to CBS Information that the quarterback suffered a mind harm. He was flown to the College of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital Friday night time.
The boy’s household introduced his loss of life on social media.
“Our boy, Caden Tellier has met Jesus head to head. We respect all your prayers, and we covet them for the laborious days forward,” their assertion on Fb stated. “Everybody who is aware of Caden has recognized kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself another time. Lives have been touched by the best way he lived and now lives will likely be saved via his passing.”
Alabama Unbiased Faculty Affiliation Govt Director Michael McClendon advised CBS Information in an announcement Sunday that “it’s believed that Caden suffered a ruptured blood vessel in his mind following a routine play during which he was carrying the ball and was tackled to the bottom,” however famous the varsity was “nonetheless within the technique of gathering particulars concerning the accident” and that “it might be fairly some time earlier than we all know extra data relating to his harm.”
In an announcement on the varsity’s Fb web page, Oliver additionally confirmed the teenager’s loss of life, saying he was a “shining mild day-after-day he graced the halls of Morgan Academy.”
“There are not any phrases to explain how we really feel as a college group and household,” the assertion stated. “Caden won’t ever be forgotten for who he was and what he means to Morgan Academy.”
The varsity is canceling all sports activities actions for the approaching week, together with this Friday’s scheduled soccer recreation at Wilcox Academy, Oliver stated.