Two Tuscarawas County high schools are providing students with mental health counseling after football player Mayson White, 15, suffered a spinal cord injury during a tackle.

White is a student at Tuscarawas Valley Middle-High School. The injury, which left him paralyzed , occurred during a game against Waynedale High School on Aug. 23.

Beyond meeting with counselors, members of the Waynedale football and cheerleading teams reached out to White, said Waynedale High School Principal Rich Roth.

“We did a kind of a therapy where they got to sign a card and get some flowers to his hospital room and that was Monday," Roth said. "It just helps, I think, [to] bring some closure to what they saw and that life moves on.”

Waynedale will also host a fundraiser for White during a game against

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