Nick Anglin is not your typical high school senior with a strong intellectual talent and passion for sports. Over the summer, while attending a Boy Scout summer camp, Nick experienced a very tragic accident. While zip lining at camp he plummeted down 40 feet to the ground. Anglin was rushed to an Indianapolis hospital where he received open heart surgery to correct his fractured aorta.
Although, extremely thankful that he was in well health, Anglin was still disappointed that he would not be able to participate in activities as regularly as he had done in the past. This did not stop Anglin from still wanting to be a part of the 2013 Bishop Noll cross country team.
“There’s a practical and sentimental reason for why I chose to run cross country this year. The practical reason is that I have been running for the past three years(lettering each year), so I wanted to finish strong. The sentimental reason is I have not only made a lot of great friends through cross country, but also simply because I just flat out love to run,” said Anglin regarding his return to cross country.
Anglin ran his first meet on Saturday, September 14th at the Lowell invite. This was his first returning meet back to cross country after his fall. He expected to run a time around 27:00 minutes, but to his surprise he ran the meet in 21:57.
“He is one of the great leaders on the team. We are all glad he is just able to run period. Nick is working hard but it is just going to take some time to get back to where he was before he got hurt, he is working toward getting there soon though,” said head coach Karl Repay.