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...Bernal should be able to resume coaching duties in time for the NCAA Championships in Milwaukee, Wisc in two weeks, Assistant Coach Ken Oberg said yesterday...
...Bernal was found lying in his totaled car on Interstate 93 around midnight of March 7. The coach had left Blodgett about 10:30 that night to visit a friend in Marblehead...
While trying to pass on the rainy highway, Bernal collided with a car that had been abandoned in the passing lane Minutes after Bernal plowed into the stopped car, a passing Emergency Medical Technician spotted the coach and rushed him to the hospital. Though he suffered no bone fractures, Bernal did have deep bruises in his pelvis and left leg which have kept him from walking...
...lucky to be alive right now," Oberg said. "His car looks like an accordion. They [the doctors] told me that if he had not been in such good shape he might have been a goner." Oberg added. Bernal, who runs regularly, felt fit enough to leave the hospital and enter UHS on Tuesday...
Since his return, friends have showered Bernal with get-well wishes. In addition to sending many cards, the swimmers bought Bernal a bouquet of crimson flowers. Even his arch-rival, Coach John Collins of the New York Badgers Swim Club, flew up to wish Bernal well...