SELMA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama highschool soccer participant, who died after being critically injured throughout a recreation, was remembered at a Monday memorial service as a caring and proficient athlete who achieved a lot in his 16 years.

Morgan Academy quarterback Caden Tellier died Saturday after being injured through the faculty’s Friday night time recreation in opposition to Southern Academy in Selma. Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a mind harm, in accordance with an announcement from the Alabama Unbiased College Affiliation.

College students, mother and father and lecturers, sporting faculty colours of maroon and gold, gathered at a memorial and prayer service held within the health club of the small non-public faculty. Members of his household sat within the first row of the memorial service.

“There was an outpouring of affection that we’ve got obtained from everybody on this room, folks throughout the nation,” Jamie Tellier, the teenager’s father, advised the neighborhood that gathered within the health club.

“I might inform you a large number about who my son was, who my son is,” mentioned Tellier. “My son was an distinctive athlete. However the factor he liked probably the most was to speak about Jesus.”

He advised the college’s soccer gamers that he would nonetheless be round as a result of, “Caden is just not going to need me to cease doing issues.”

“Caden was solely right here for 16 years. However my son achieved a lot. He achieved a lot. He liked,” mentioned Tellier, although tears.

The second oldest of 9 cousins, Tellier would at all times exit of his solution to play with the youngest within the group, even when his friends had been round, his grandmother, whom he referred to as Mimi, mentioned. Earlier than he died, Caden was instructing his 4-year-old cousin how you can throw a baseball, she mentioned.

“We might name him and say, ‘Are you able to come assist us’ and he was there,” his grandmother, Dale Dobbs, mentioned. He would by no means settle for cash or allowance for the work he did for the household, she added.

Outdoors the college, flowers, balloons together with his 17 jersey quantity, and notes had been positioned within the scholar parking zone in remembrance of Tellier. “Miss U Buddy,” was scrawled in chalk subsequent to a coronary heart.

Deal with soccer, on the skilled, faculty and youth league stage, could cause accidents that harm the mind, leaving mother and father and households to steadiness the dangers in opposition to the alternatives and advantages.

Tellier’s mother and father indicated in a social media publish that introduced their son’s dying that he would save lives via organ donation. Morgan Academy Headmaster Bryan Oliver confirmed to al.com that Tellier was an organ donor.

“Everybody who is aware of Caden has identified kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself another time. Lives have been touched by the best way he lived and now lives can be saved via his passing,” his mother and father wrote in a social media publish that introduced his dying.

The varsity is canceling all sports activities actions for the approaching week, together with this Friday’s scheduled soccer recreation at Wilcox Academy.

“The story is just not about an harm on the sector, the story is that we liked Caden, and he liked the lord,” Oliver mentioned.

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