Assistant coach gives up part of his liver for dying coach
Screen shot from ABC13High school coaches are a saintly group: Long hours. Little pay. Minute fanfare. All for the good of young people.
In the case of Cy-Ridge (Houston) football coach John McWilliams, he received quite a payback recently. From a fellow coach, of course.
McWilliams was in need of a liver and assistant coach Matthew Beeler delivered. He will transplant 63 percent of his liver to his fellow coach, with whom he shares Type O blood.
"There's not a better man out there, not a more deserving man out there for me to do this for," Beeler told abc13.com.
Said McWilliams: "I'm just thankful that he had come to work for us. There must have been some higher, you know, being there that sent that young man this way."
The student body and faculty are currently raising money at Cy-Ridge for medical expenses.
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