OCR Text |
Show Beck Has Weekly Routine With Cast I'frr' '! V'tK rtnirf his little league team. By the time he played ninth grade ball at Millcreek he had moved over to defense and was playing play-ing safety. NOW THE 6' 165 pound senior is a starting cornerback in the Braves secondary. Lightning struck again this past summer when he broke the same bone in the same place during workouts. SO EVEN now the wrist plays a role in his weekly routine. "I have to wear a cast on the wrist all week. Then a couple of hours before the game I go over and get a soft cast put on so I can play. Then on Saturday I go back and get my cast put back on." During the games Todd wears a towel in his pants, something some people take as being a showboat. "It's not though. The soft cast has some type of glue in it and when I run and get sweaty the glue runs all over everything and I have to use the towel to wipe myself clean and keep it off everything." every-thing." THE W RIST also keeps him from playing offense. "I rein-jured rein-jured the wrist this summer in passing drills and now the coaches don't want to take the chance of the ball hitting it hard. At least that's the excuse the coaches tell me." Sounds funny to me though, he can catch the ball as a safety but not as a receiver? After football Todd will start to strengthen his wrist again, by taking a tennis ball and squeezing it everywhere he goes, to get ready for baseball. Todd is a big part of the success suc-cess the Braves have had in baseball. "I like basketball but since I didn't play last year I'm a year behind." RIGHT NOW though Todd is just happy to be playing football, foot-ball, a sport that he truly loves, and he's just hoping that lightning light-ning won't strike again for the third time. TODD BUCK By DAVE WIGHAM BOUNTIFUL -Ever since sophomore football two years ago senior Todd Beck has had a broken left wrist. Trouble is half of that time he didn't know about it. "I REMEMBER when we were playing West as sophomores. sopho-mores. I came up hard to make a tackle and took on a Mocker. My wrist came back hard and I thought I had sprained it. I ran to the bench, taped it up and went back in. I didn't even tell coach about it" Todd recalled. He continued his sophomore sopho-more ear by playing both basketball bas-ketball and baseball for the Braves thinking all along that he still had a sprained wrist. Then during the summer his mother talked him into going to the doctor about the wrist. "I recall she said it wouldn't hurt to have it checked" he laughed. W ELL IT took one x-ray to determine that he had a fracture frac-ture and a bone graph was needed. "The doctor showed me how he could tell that the bone had tried to heal by itself but that it had done it crooked" he added. Todd began his football endeavors en-deavors at the age of 10 when he made his debut as a middle linebacker and quarterback on |