SELMA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama highschool soccer participant, who died after being critically injured throughout a recreation, was remembered at a Monday memorial service as a caring and proficient athlete who achieved a lot in his 16 years.
Morgan Academy quarterback Caden Tellier died Saturday after being injured through the faculty’s Friday night time recreation towards Southern Academy in Selma. Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a mind harm, in line with 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 gymnasium of the small non-public faculty. Members of his household sat within the first row of the memorial service.
“There was an outpouring of affection that we have now obtained from everybody on this room, folks throughout the nation,” Jamie Tellier, the teenager’s father, informed the neighborhood that gathered within the gymnasium.
“I might 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 just isn’t 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 strategy to play with the youngest within the group, even when his friends have been round, his grandmother, whom he known as Mimi, stated. Earlier than he died, Caden was instructing his 4-year-old cousin easy methods to throw a baseball, she stated.
“We might 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.
Outdoors the varsity, flowers, balloons together with his 17 jersey quantity, and notes have been positioned within the scholar 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 stage, could cause accidents that injury the mind, leaving dad and mom and households to steadiness the dangers towards the alternatives and advantages.
Tellier’s dad and mom indicated in a social media submit that introduced their son’s dying that he would save lives by organ donation. Morgan Academy Headmaster Bryan Oliver confirmed to al.com that Tellier was an organ donor.
“Everybody who is aware of Caden has recognized kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself yet another time. Lives have been touched by the way in which he lived and now lives might be saved by his passing,” his dad and mom wrote in a social media submit that introduced his dying.
The college is canceling all sports activities actions for the approaching week, together with this Friday’s scheduled soccer recreation at Wilcox Academy.
“The story just isn’t about an harm on the sector, the story is that we cherished Caden, and he cherished the lord,” Oliver stated.
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