Cal rugby sophomore from El Dorado Hills Robert Paylor suffered an injury that left him paralyzed below the chest during the Bears\u2019 national title victory on Saturday, his family said.<\/p>\n
The precise nature of Paylor\u2019s injury has not been disclosed, but his family said that his lower body is paralyzed and that he has \u201climited motion in his arms.\u201d \u00a0During the Collegiate National Championship Rugby Match on May 6 , Robert suffered a sports injury that has left him paralyzed below the chest. \u00a0He had surgery that evening for his best chance of regaining movement of his arms and hands.<\/p>\n
Paylor was hurt in a collision early in the Bears\u2019 title match against Arkansas State at Stevens Stadium in Santa Clara. He was immobilized and taken off the field on a stretcher, and underwent surgery Saturday night at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur team is devastated by Rob\u2019s injury,\u201d Cal head coach Jack Clark said in a statement. \u201cThere aren\u2019t words to adequately explain our sorrow for what he and his family are going through. Rob is an extraordinary teammate, friend and student-athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family said that it was \u201coverwhelmed\u201d by the outpouring of support it has received from the Cal rugby family and friends and people from around the country. \u00a0\u201cWe can\u2019t find the words that express what that has meant to all of us in this very sad time in our lives,\u201d the family said in the statement. \u201cRobert is currently working on stabilizing his condition so he can start rehabilitation.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be a long and difficult journey for Robert and his outcome is uncertain. But we know his faith and determination will get him as far as he can go in regaining mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 6-foot-5, 233-pound sophomore Paylor attended Jesuit High School in Carmichael.<\/p>\n
At Cal, he was a starter at the lock position, which places a premium on height and strength.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis challenges will be severe, long in duration and difficult beyond measure,\u201d Clark said. \u201cOur team intends to be there with him every bit of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iin just the first four days a\u00a0GoFundMe account<\/a>\u00a0has collected almost $500,000 of a $1 million dollar goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cal rugby sophomore from El Dorado Hills Robert Paylor suffered an injury that left him paralyzed below the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}