SHARON, Mass. — A Sharon High School football player is hospitalized in Boston with a “traumatic” brain injury that he suffered in the town’s annual Thanksgiving game on Thursday.
In a letter to the community shared Saturday by the Sharon Police Department, Superintendent of Sharon Public Schools Peter Botelho and Sharon High School Principal Kristen Keenan said sophomore Rohan Shukla collapsed on the sideline after suffering the head injury on a play against Easton’s Oliver Ames High School.
Botelho and Keenan said trainers, coaches, and emergency personnel responded immediately to Shukla, prompting a termination of play with Oliver Ames leading 21-0. Shukla was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton before being rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he continues to receive treatment.
“Our thoughts and prayers are going out to Rohan, his parents Abhishek and Deepika, and his twin brother, Naman, during this incredibly difficult time,” Botelho and Keenan stated in the letter. “While offering our …