An Ohio high school quarterback is lucky to be alive after suffering a serious spinal cord injury during a game. The incident happened last Friday, August 21.
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Quarterback Parker Wynk was playing for Celina High School when another player hit him. The movement caused the quarterback to snap his neck backwards. According to The Spun, he was seriously injured.
"You never want your kids to be one. The one your community has to pray fervently for. The one everyone is worried about," Wynk's family said in a statement shared on
Facebook. "While trying to recover a fumble, Parker collided with another player and his neck snapped backward. He immediately could not move or feel touch on his body. He could not move on the field, on the way to the hospital, or for some time after we arrived at Coldwater. And we were all praying."High School Quarterback Injured
After being hit, the quarterback began to experience "tingling and burning."
"... We have now met with the neurosurgeon. And have a little more understanding of what happened," they continued. "We learned that Parker was born with a congenitally narrow spinal canal, meaning there simply isn't much extra space or cushion around his spinal cord. When he collided with the other player and his neck was forced backward, his spinal cord was injured."
"We are incredibly thankful that there are no broken bones or vertebrae and Parker's brain is 100% okay. But his spinal cord has been injured, and right now we simply do not know what that will mean for his future," the family also added.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Celina Church of God to pray for the high school quarterback on Saturday.
"They know that this would be an opportunity to bring the young men together. They wanted to give them a space and a place to be [with each other]," said Craig Flack, the teaching pastor at Celina Church of God.
"They're not glad they're in the situation they're in, but in the situation their in, if they can use that to spread the gospel, they're going to take that opportunity," he also said.
