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...very least, the 24-year-old Wilhite should be on a ventilator and in a wheelchair. Instead, only six months after the accident - which took the lives of Adenhart, Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart - Wilhite walks, talks, lifts weights, jogs - and smiles. A catcher on the Cal State Fullerton teams that won the Division 1A College World Series in 2004 and reached the finals in 2006 and '07, Wilhite would like to play in the alumni game next year. Indeed, on Aug. 29, he threw out the first pitch at the Angels-Athletics game. Once...
Life or death can depend on the blink of an eye or the fraction of an inch. A split-second difference at the intersection that night and the racing minivan driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo would have hit Stewart's sports coupe only with a glancing blow. Instead, running a red light, Gallo slammed into the Mitsubishi Eclipse at over 65 m.p.h. "right between the wheels - direct dead center," says Wilhite's father. Meanwhile, a slight quarter-inch movement of Wilhite's vulnerable spinal cord during his rescue by paramedics or at the hospital and he would be paralyzed...
...skull, Bhatia says brain shearing occurs when a powerful blow whiplashes nerve endings across the entire brain. At a charity game at Cal State Fullerton in July, the Wilhite family thanked the paramedics and doctors for saving Jon and offered their condolences and prayers to the Adenhart, Pearson and Stewart families. At the time, Wilhite spoke haltingly, walked stiffly and heavily favored his left side. "His personality was there," says his father, "but we were afraid he had permanent damage to the right side of his body." Wilhite says, "When you look at a tape of the event...
Claire and Stewart both started running when they reached the seventh grade, while the Spragues have a tradition of hitting the pavement together...
...started because the coach said, ‘you should come out and run’ when I was in middle school,” Claire said. “He did the same thing to Stewart. It’s been cool to be able to watch his [Stewart’s] progression...