Feb. 11, 2008
Sometimes, as the saying goes, it's better to be lucky than good. Army diver Zach McLain is both - and his return to the boards just six months after breaking his neck proves it.
McLain was vacationing with family at his grandparents' cabin in Pennsylvania in July. He along with one of his younger brothers and a cousin were goofing around at a swimming hole near the cabin. On the day McLain's harrowing six-month ordeal began, there was a good bit of joking, goading and one-upmanship going on among the three boys. The mood was light until McLain took a head-first dive off the cliff, hit "something," was knocked unconscious and floated to the surface. At first, his brother and cousin thought he was still joking. The blood in the water from a cut on McLain's head convinced them otherwise.
For the rest of Leilana McKindra's article from the NCAA News click here
