Blue & Gold Illustrated: 2012 Notre Dame Football Preview
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114 ✦ BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED 2018 FOOTBALL PREVIEW BY TODD D. BURLAGE C hildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Hospital, Room 352. It took a few days for Tyler Newsome to get over the initial shock, but here was the place this caring Notre Dame student- athlete realized that maybe his situation wasn't so bad, despite the fact that he was feeling otherwise. A Jeep accident on his way home from work in May 2012 left Newsome with a bro- ken pelvis, a fractured tailbone, a ruptured spleen, broken ribs, a concussion and some forgivable thoughts of, "Why me?" Newsome, now a Notre Dame graduate student and starting punter for the Irish foot- ball team, was just a couple weeks short of finishing his junior year at Carrollton High School, 50 miles west of Atlanta, at the time of the wreck. He would spend 17 days recovering in the hospital, giving him plenty of idle time during his early rehab for prayer, reflection and worry. "The first couple of days the doctor told me that I may not play football again," New- some recalled. "I looked him in the eye, and I told him that he was wrong. I knew I would play again." Newsome's spirit remained strong, but Newsome (second from the left) has gone above and beyond in his quest to give back to children and local communities, determined to use his platform as a Notre Dame football player to positively impact others. PHOTO BY MICHAEL BENNETT