California highschool soccer participant hospitalized after sort out

A South East Excessive Faculty scholar was critically injured Friday night time after tackling one other participant throughout a junior varsity soccer recreation towards Maywood Middle for Enriched Research.

After a participant was tackled on the sideline within the second half of the sport at South East Excessive Faculty in South Gate, the scholar who made the sort out instantly required medical help, mentioned a member of the Los Angeles Soccer Officers’ Assn. who was not approved to talk publicly concerning the incident. The scholar was taken to the hospital by ambulance and the sport was ended.

An official report was filed, the individual mentioned, however was not accessible to the general public as a result of a minor was concerned.

“I used to be kneeling down and praying that this child can get wholesome and get again up,” mentioned Cesar Trillo, varsity coach for Maywood.

South East Excessive Faculty Principal Eric Jaimes despatched a message to households concerning the incident, saying, “Our scholar acquired medical consideration and is presently being handled at a medical facility. Our ideas are with the scholar and his household throughout this extraordinarily tough time.”

The scholar’s title had not been launched as of Wednesday afternoon, nor was any info disclosed concerning the scholar’s situation.

As of final yr, there have been eight athletic trainers employed at Los Angeles Unified colleges — South East didn’t have one. L.A. Unified requires the house group to provide an EMT or athletic coach earlier than the sport begins. It suggests the visiting group have one as nicely.

This month, two Alabama highschool soccer gamers died inside two weeks of one another, NPR reported. Quarterback Caden Tellier, 16, died after struggling a head harm within the first half of the opening recreation for John T. Morgan Academy in Selma. Semaj Wilkins, 14, died after collapsing throughout observe at New Brockton Excessive Faculty, on a day when the thermometer hit 96 levels.