Edmonton Huskies football team help motorcycle crash victim on Saskatchewan highway
Global News
'We did what any person would do... (but) it really reinforces that team and family aspect that the Huskies have, and it feels nice.'
It’s a case of being in the right place at the right time.
Members of the Edmonton Huskies junior football team sprung into action Sunday night, when their bus came upon the scene of a motorcycle crash in Saskatchewan.
The motorcycle had collided with a deer just before 6 p.m. CT, about four kilometres east of Borden on Highway 16, according to the local fire department.
“When we were pulling up, it looked a little chaotic — there were people already trying to help,” Huskies general manager Jason Lorrimer told Global News on Monday.
Lorrimer said he asked his athletic therapists if they would help out at the scene “And they said, ‘absolutely.'”
The team was just settling in for the five-hour drive home on the Yellowhead after losing 33-31 to the Saskatoon Hilltops in the Prairie Football Conference semifinal.
Sheldon McNabb, a defensive back for the Huskies, said a number of the players had just started playing video games when they came across the scene.
“I saw that the trainers were going out,” McNabb said, adding he’s been studying to become a paramedic and has some practicum experience.
