Likelihood Gainer, an 18-year-old senior at Port St. Joe Excessive Faculty and star participant for the Tiger Sharks, tragically collapsed throughout a soccer recreation in opposition to the Bulldogs and later died.
Gainer, who had electrified the group with a 70-yard landing earlier within the recreation, was enjoying protection when he instantly went down, Northwest Florida Daily News reported.
In accordance with Tim Davis, Liberty County Athletic Director and Assistant Principal, the collapse got here with out warning as Gainer trailed a play creating on the alternative aspect of the sector.
“He simply went to the bottom instantly,” Davis recounted in an interview with Northwest Florida Each day Information. Coaches instantly rushed to his support, however the gravity of the state of affairs shortly escalated.
EMS was known as, and regardless of the heroic efforts of medics who managed to regain a pulse, Gainer was pronounced lifeless at a hospital in Blountstown, simply an hour after the sport.
“We acquired the information about an hour later that he had died,” Davis stated. “The sport had about 4 minutes left within the fourth quarter and the choice was made to go forward and end it so the Port St. Joe coaches might inform the gamers collectively.”
“The scene was heartbreaking. Mother and father got here down on the sector to consolation their youngsters. Such a helpless feeling,” he added.
In accordance with the GoFundMe:
Likelihood Gainer, a Senior at Port St. Joe Excessive Faculty tragically handed away Friday Evening (September sixth) after collapsing on the soccer subject. Likelihood was not solely a star athlete however a properly beloved classmate.
Chances are you’ll not hear him, however you may see his smile from throughout the room. A staff, a college, a group and most significantly, a household is really devastated by the lack of Likelihood. That is greater than a fundraiser; it’s a group effort to help one in all our personal in a time of want.
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