GREENWOOD VILLAGE — Kain Colter, Cherry Creek’s versatile quarterback whose brilliant late-season run paced the Bruins to the 2008 Class 5A title game, is probably done for the season with a torn right labrum.
While reaching for a fumble this past weekend against Smoky Hill in the Centennial League, the Stanford commitment took a shot. While he said he felt a stinging pain in his shoulder, he continued for a couple of series before being pulled.
An MRI confirmed the tear.
“It’s all very unfortunate,” Colter said.
He plans to get a second opinion, but is all but convinced surgery will be necessary.
Colter, who said he communicated his situation to the Stanford staff and was told his scholarship will be honored, called it “terrible. All the hard work I’ve put in. . . . I’ll get a second opinion, but I’ve got to believe I’ll have (surgery). It’s a 100 percent tear. I can’t risk anything with it.”
Said Bruins coach Mike Brookhart: “It was a freak thing. Kain’s a great kid and a great player.”
Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
