CORVALLIS — Aiden Sullivan heard it before he felt it.

While running toward the end zone in the second game of his sophomore year of high school, a teammate fell on his plant leg. Sullivan’s tibia and fibula snapped. From the stands, his mother watched a kid who always seemed to get up writhe on the turf in pain.

By the following season — with the help of a titanium rod and four screws, along with extra recovery time due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Sullivan was back on the field.

“He’s always had this quiet determination,” mother Rahnna Sullivan said. “In regards to that injury, I don’t think there was ever a doubt in his mind that he’d be back. From the community’s perspective, it was time to hang up his cleats and choose a different path. The determination on that kid is absolutely inc

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