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Glenview Goalie Joey Kasch Battling Back from Serious Summer Injury

By Ross Forman, 10/29/15, 5:00PM CDT

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Stars Player Featured in AHAI Publication "Snapshot"

Joey Kasch was ready to take a swing on the 9th hole of a surprise Father’s Day round of golf for his dad, Mark. Joey was joined at Billy Caldwell Golf Course on Chicago’s north side by his brothers Tommy, Danny and Jimmy.

“I was on the fairway, hoping to hit the ball on the green,” Joey recalled. “As I looked down to focus on the ball, (I) just heard a ‘Boom’ and the force knocked me down to the ground right away.”

Joey, 13, had been struck in the face by another golfer’s errant shot. “My whole face felt numb; my eye was stinging, throbbing and bleeding; and my heart was freaking out a lot more than I was,” he said. “I saw all these blurry lights that were different colors in my head and I refused to open either of my eyes.”

At first, he couldn’t open his left eye, which endured the majority of the impact of the ball.

“I heard a ringing in my ear,” Joey said. “It took me a little while to realize what the heck was going on.”

He was immediately attended to, asked if he was OK.

He wasn’t.

“My stomach felt nauseous; my heart was going ballistic, and I was in excruciating pain,” he said. “The thing is, the pain I was feeling wasn’t something really describable like a paper cut that stings. It wasn’t a measurable pain like getting pinches.

“The pain I felt was indescribable and unbelievable.”

Kasch was loaded on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to Resurrection Hospital, then transferred to Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.

The first two days after the accident “may have been the worst two days of my life,” he said.

Read the full article (free) on Snapshot, AHAI's official publication.


Glenview Stars player Joey Kasch