Rugby player, Tyson Wasser(17) is rehabilitating from stroke he suffered during a match (May'23)

While teammate recovers from stroke, Granite Bay rugby team stays strong ahead of national championships
Updated: 8:31 AM PDT May 19, 2023
GRANITE BAY, Calif. —
The Granite Bay Rugby Club is looking ahead to playing in national championship matches next week. They’ll play, its athletes say, for one of their own.
“This group of people, they always motivate you,” senior John-Henry Rouse said. “It’s always one team, one family, one brotherhood. Nobody gives up, everybody grinds.”
One of their teammates, however, will not be joining them on the pitch. Tyson Wasser, 17, a member of the team, is currently rehabilitating from a stroke he suffered during a match last month.
“About 10 minutes into the second half, he just started having numbness on the left side of his body,” Coach Chris Miller said. “If you watch video, our sideline is over to the right, and you can see he’s trying to make his way over to our bench, but he keeps gravitating to the left.”
Miller said two players on the opposing team helped Wasser off the field. Paramedics, he said, alerted him to the seriousness of the medical event. He said in his more than two decades of coaching, keeping his athletes safe on the pitch has been the priority.
“It was scary. It was one of the first times I’ve ever been in that situation,” Miller said. “It was pretty emotional when it happened. It still is.”
The stroke was caused by a blood clot in Tyson’s neck.

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“It has been a pretty crazy experience,” Tyson Wasser said from the rehabilitation center he’s recovering in over Zoom.
He’s learning to walk again. He’s undergoing physical, occupational and speech therapy as he makes his recovery. He thanked his teammates for their support and the belief in his getting better.
“They have been my biggest supporters throughout the whole thing, other than my parents, of course,” he said. “The whole organization has been so helpful to us.”
The team is set to play in the national championships next week in Indiana. They’ve dedicated the game to Tyson.
“I’ll definitely be watching and cheering them on,” he said.
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