I looked long and hard for a news story that’s about my small private school in downtown Lexington, KY and it took me a while to find a story I wanted to post. Most of the things I found while searching we’re just score updates or school reviews. My school for as long as I can remember was pretty drama free in the sense of newsworthy-ness. I did find this story (although it’s from 2010, it’s the only thing I could find that fit into the description of a new story about my school).
I think this story is very interesting because I was a sophomore when this story happened and it was a pretty huge deal among our little community. Dylan Newton, a senior at the time, was our soccer teams best player. He was a really special player to watch and was almost like a magician on the field. During a game he fell and broke his leg really badly. He had to be taken off the field by an ambulance and couldn’t finish the rest of his senior year. It was a huge deal to our small school because with him on our team we were going to have a chance to go further in the state championship than we had done in previous years. This is a big deal for a small academic school that, at the time, didn’t even have athletic tryouts for most teams because we needed all the players we could get.
I remember visiting Dylan in the hospital and his leg injury was much more serious than just a break. He had a horrible infection in his leg and the doctors found a way to treat it: maggots. That’s what this story is about. Dylan still has his leg and it is functioning just as well today even though he did not get to go on and further his soccer career in college.