Alabama high school football player who died after suffering game injury is remembered

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama highschool soccer participant, who died after being critically injured throughout a sport, was remembered at a Monday memorial service as a caring and gifted athlete who achieved a lot in his 16 years.

Morgan Academy quarterback Caden Tellier died Saturday after being injured in the course of the faculty’s Friday evening sport in opposition to Southern Academy in Selma. Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a mind damage, in response to a press release from the Alabama Unbiased Faculty Affiliation.

College students, dad and mom and academics, sporting faculty colours of maroon and gold, gathered at a memorial and prayer service held within the health club of the small personal faculty. Members of his household sat within the first row of the memorial service.

“There was an outpouring of affection that now we have obtained from everybody on this room, individuals throughout the nation,” Jamie Tellier, the teenager’s father, informed the group that gathered within the health club.

“I may inform you a large number about who my son was, who my son is,” stated Tellier. “My son was an distinctive athlete. However the factor he cherished probably the most was to speak about Jesus.”

He informed the varsity’s soccer gamers that he would nonetheless be round as a result of, “Caden will not be going to need me to cease doing issues.”

“Caden was solely right here for 16 years. However my son achieved a lot. He achieved a lot. He cherished,” stated Tellier, although tears.

The second oldest of 9 cousins, Tellier would at all times exit of his method to play with the youngest within the group, even when his friends have been round, his grandmother, whom he referred to as Mimi, stated. Earlier than he died, Caden was educating his 4-year-old cousin throw a baseball, she stated.

“We may name him and say, ‘Are you able to come assist us’ and he was there,” his grandmother, Dale Dobbs, stated. He would by no means settle for cash or allowance for the work he did for the household, she added.

Exterior the varsity, flowers, balloons along with his 17 jersey quantity, and notes have been positioned within the pupil car parking zone in remembrance of Tellier. “Miss U Buddy,” was scrawled in chalk subsequent to a coronary heart.

Sort out soccer, on the skilled, faculty and youth league degree, may cause accidents that harm the mind, leaving dad and mom and households to stability the dangers in opposition to the alternatives and advantages.

Tellier’s dad and mom indicated in a social media publish that introduced their son’s demise that he would save lives by means of organ donation. Morgan Academy Headmaster Bryan Oliver confirmed to al.com that Tellier was an organ donor.

“Everybody who is aware of Caden has identified kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself another time. Lives have been touched by the way in which he lived and now lives shall be saved by means of his passing,” his dad and mom wrote in a social media publish that introduced his demise.

The college is canceling all sports activities actions for the approaching week, together with this Friday’s scheduled soccer sport at Wilcox Academy.

“The story will not be about an damage on the sphere, the story is that we cherished Caden, and he cherished the lord,” Oliver stated.