It was a moment that changed his life. It’s the moment Jayson Stanley points to when he needs that extra bit of motivation.
Stanley’s Creekside football team was preparing for its 2013 season with a preseason scrimmage at Banneker High School. In the third quarter, De’Antre Turman, one of the best players on the Creekside squad, made a routine tackle he’d connected on countless times before.
This time, he didn’t get up.
On contact, Turman, a star athlete who was being recruited by Division I programs, suffered a broken neck. He was pronounced dead hours after arriving to a local hospital.