Spencer Bailey
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He's left with three boys to raise.
He's suffering from depression, trying to figure out his life and pick up the pieces and run a house.
And my brother kind of had to, in a lot of ways, rise to the occasion to be a sort of model.
Part of that included him realizing we had to get out of the house.
He had to get out of the house, but also us.
So he became very athletic.
I think that was partially just because he was passionate about sports, but also he wanted to prove to others that he could do it.
Both his legs were gruesomely broken in the crash.
His femur bone was sticking out of one of his legs on the runway.
He had to learn how to walk again.
He was in a wheelchair for a long time, on crutches for a long time.
Kids poked fun of him at school, called him a cripple.
Ended up going to a high school that had the number one lacrosse team in the country.
Then he's getting recruited to the top lacrosse programs in the country for Division I. And I think he also came to realize that sports weren't everything for him either.
He's constantly been this model to show you don't always have to be the best by being at the very top.
You can be the best by just modeling it.
And he did that in sports.
He was a very good hockey player, too.