[nky]

Ryle assistant coach thrives despite paralysis

Adam Collinsworth is truly an inspiration

Back in July, during the first week of practice for the Ryle football team, senior linebacker Mac Vollett kept wondering how the guy in the wheelchair was going to help him become a better player.
It didn't take him long to find out.
The guy in the wheelchair was assistant coach Adam Collinsworth, a former standout linebacker at Scott High School and then at Thomas More College who broke two vertebrae in his neck in a diving accident at a friend's pool on Aug. 9, 1998. Collinsworth since has been paralyzed from the neck down.
Collinsworth almost didn't survive the accident, twice going into cardiac arrest and having his heart stop both times. After spending three months in a hospital and being told he would need either a ventilator or oxygen tanks the rest of his life in order to breathe, Collinsworth persevered and became a coach at Thomas More for six years beginning in 1999.

read more at
http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/201...-paralysis

[nky]

[Image: http://cmsimg.nky.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bil...-paralysis]

[GetChili]

Great story right here.

[toussaints]

You beat me to it nky, awesome story about one of the good guys in football.

[nky]

Adam was a heck of a player back in the day. On both sides of the ball he could flat out play.

[Stardust]

Great story!