Pete Stenhoff did not see it coming. The 16-year-old football player from Chula Vista High School cracked vertebrae in his spine after ramming his head on an opposing player’s chest. Now, the Redmond native is stuck with a wheel chair for the rest of his life.
"I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football," he said. "I wish I would have known just how bad it could be."
There are 20,000 injuries in high school football each year, and like Stenhoff, 12 percent of those injured are permanently disabled.
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