Skiing accident leaves Ex-Husky with big hurdle

Scott Swanson

Nearly five years after suffering a major head injury while pole vaulting, former Sweet Home athlete Keegan Burnett is in a hospital bed once again, this time with a crushed spine after a skiing accident that doctors say will likely leave him paralyzed for life.

“It will be a miracle if he walks again,” said his grandmother, Jessie Johnson Burnett.

Burnett, 27, went skiing – for what his mother Alice Burnett said was…

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