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How a Case Phi came back from surgery to play the sport he loves i..is-.^JU- By Rob Pasquinucci
I MOST 15-YEAR OLDS WOULD BE SCARED OUT of their wits at the prospect of having surgeons peel back their face and cut open their skull for a tricky operation to remove a tennis-ball sized tumor. But Mike Minette, Case '99, could only ask his doctor one question: "So I can't play football this season" "The surgery really didn't concern me at all," Minette says. "The doctor looked at me like I was a moron." Minette, when he was a high school student at Northeastern High School in Springfield, Ohio was bailing hay to get in shape for the upcoming football season when a headache too strong to ignore led to the discovery of the tumor. Within weeks, Minette was in the hospital for surgery that would put an end to football for the season, but more importandy, the tumor was a non-cancerous vascular malformation. He left the hospital five days later with a scar across the top of his head and a strengthened desire to play football again. "I think being an athlete helped me recover," Minette says. "It occupied everything I thought about." Minette admits to feeling sorry for himself after surgery, but counted on friends to help. One of these friends, fellow football player Sam Ricketts, was at his house when he came home from the hospital. Ricketts was the star quarterback at Miami University this past football season. "I walked in and he told me 'that's what legends are made of.'" Within a week, Minnette ventured onto the football field to run around with friends. After two months, he was wrestling again. A year later, Minette was cleared to play football and returned to the field. Teamates gave him the nickname "Crazy to Play". He played with a special protective plastic shell on his helmet and his return to the field made his parents nervous but not the resilient Minette. "I fear regret," Minette says with a smile." I don't want to regret things I didn't do." After high school, Minette applied to Case because of its reputation and his desire to enjoy big-city life. He started as a biomedical engineering major but later switched to nursing. He walked on the university's football team and started all four years. This past season, Minette played his final year as a safety for the Case football season. A team captain, he logged 122 tackles and caused four fumbles. Minette will return to Case for a fifth year next year but his football eligibility is over. He will miss football but, other than watching some games, will stay away from the sport next year. Many of his Case chapter brothers play on the Case foot- Above; A scar from surgery rings Minette's head. Right: Minette Case football practice. Photographs by Chuck Crow. Reprinted w permsiion from The Plain Dealer Copyright 1997. All rights reserved. ball team. Minette says his Case brothers have been supportive friends throughout college. After graduation, he plans to head out West to pursue his nursing career, but doesn't limit his future plans to nursing. He is very interested in forming some type of organization to help kids who are struggling to recover from health problems. "I like to help people, that's what sets me off," Minette says. "I'm pretty persistent and I'm pretty sentimental." During this past football season, Minette made special arrangements to visit sick "I think being an athlete helped me recover. It occupied everything I thought about/' children at the Carnegie-Mellon Instititute after Case played there. "I hung out with some really young kids, just playing and having a good time with them," Minette says. "I've always been a hero for the underdog." Looking back on the good fortune following his surgery, Minette admits he may have been too concerned with football, but says the experience taught him valuable life lessons. "I think that's what life's all about," Minette says. "It's not necessarily quantitative, it's qualitative." http://www.phidelt-ghq. com THE SCROLL WINTER 1998 25
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