His Body Shut Down on Him
Just six weeks into his freshman year, Norton mistimed a play in the third quarter. He’d already trained hundreds of times, but his miscalculation led to a horrible spinal cord injury. Suddenly, the whole stadium got very quiet. But the 18-year-old was too busy wondering why he was lying on the ground feeling as if his body had shut down. He was scared. Sadly, this was only the beginning of his story.