Liberty Players Injured

[Bamalax]

My sympathy goes out to all the guys on the Liberty team and their families. John has done a great job with this bunch and I wish him and everyone a speedy recovery!!!

GW

[CATLAX MAN]

John & Bill:

It goes without saying that the entire lacrosse community is pulling for your players' speedy recovery and we all are praying for the families & friends of the players. We are encouraged to hear that some players are going to be OK and await word on the ones that are still battling for their recovery. May God be with all of the LU family.

[DG]

I'd like to add my own prayers to the growing list. Best wishes to everyone for a speedy physical and emotional recovery.

DG

[Dan Wishengrad]

Amen. Heartfelt wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to all the injured Liberty players and coach.

[Rob Graff]

From all of us with the UMD team - best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery to all those injured. And Bill, to echo Catlax, honoring your daughter's birthday was the right thing to do - don't blame yourself.

Rob Graff

[TheLoo]

Apparantly the coach and his "two young sons" are among those in hospital.

http://www.wpmi.com/news/local/story.as ... EC47A7E22D

The pictures don't make it look good, we should be thankful everyone is alive. My prayers are with everyone involved.

[Joe Oakland]

My thoughts and prayers are with LU, too.

[OAKS]

Our thoughts are with them as well here at GT.

On another note, one of the variety of reasons the game was played originally was for healing. I think a great thing to do would be to dedicate this week's games to the recovery of the LU team. It might sound corny and hokey to some, but this was the way of life for many generations and was taken as seriously as attending a church, temple, mosque, etc. is today. Aside from the obvious few things you can do, I can't think of a better way to send out your thoughts, prayers, etc. than to go out and play lacrosse for those kids.

[jtlax]

I send my prayers and best wishes to the members of the LU team and family.

Jeremy Tesar

[Tim Gray]

I don't think that it can be said enough, that all of our prayers are with the players, their families and teammates at this time.

[Bill Kendall]

Not much more news than what you've seen. I am sure I speak for all of us at Liberty when I say thank you for the kind words, thoughts, dedication and prayers.

One thing I learned from picking up my first stick when I was 6 was that lacrosse is a family. We all have a common bond that binds us in sport. We may not all like each other at times, but we have that same common denomiator that will keep us part of a special family througout the rest of our lives.

Take care, God Bless all of you

[LaxLuthor]

Westfall gave birth to lax at Winthrop and we are in shock and all praying for everyone involved.

[Bill Kendall]

Just got off the phone with Lisa, John's wife and John himself. John took 40 stitches over his eye and a concussion, he was driving the lead van. He's pretty out of it. His two boys were in the back and did not do so well. I cannot say what happened to who, but here goes

Both boys were thrown from the van as it was flipping. One landed in the grass with another player landing on him, breaking his arm. The other ended up landing on the road, 100 stitches, contusions, will need multiple skin graphs for his ankles, also bruises in his stomach that the doctors are concerned about fluid build up.

Keep them in your prayers.

They are at Springhill Medical Center
3719 Dauphin Street
Mobile, AL 36608

[Thriller]

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Liberty Lacrosse and their families from Vanderbilt University.

[Neighbours]

Our thoughts and prayers are with them as well at Western Michigan University.

News footage is here: http://video.wpmi.com/viewer/viewerpage ... .tpl&cat=5