It was the early morning of July 20, 2012, and Zack Golditch was at the hospital getting his neck stitched up after being struck by a bullet during the Aurora theater shooting that left 12 people dead and 70 injured.
On Golditch’s mind at the time? Making the weight lifting session a few hours later at Gateway, where the Olympians’ football star was getting ready for his senior year.
“I was 17 years old, and I didn’t really understand the magnitude of what happened, and next thing you know I’ve got cameras in my face from major media outlets, people messaging me from across the country and the world — I didn’t really know how to take it in,” Golditch explained.