Using the focus structure, write a lead plus the next two paragraphs of a story (transition & nut graf) based on the following information:

There are 20,000 injuries in high school football each year -- 12 percent of them permanently disabling the victims. Thirteen youths died last year. Thirty-five percent of the injuries are to the neck or head. Most critics blame the helmet.

Pete Stenhoff, 17, a student at Chula Vista High School in Redmond, Calif., was hurt in a game during his junior year. He rammed his head into the ball carrier's chest. Stenhoff cracked vertebrae in his spine and now is confined to a wheelchair for life. At the time of the accident, he weighed 210 pounds; now he weighs 172 pounds. He didn't graduate with his class is and trying to get his diploma by taking correspondence courses. He is not bitter.

"I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football," he says, and adds, "I wish I would have known just how bad it could be."