US Lacrosse Magazine – A Goal to Remember: ThunderRidge’s Adam Hess Has a Moment
By Brian Logue
On May 4, Denver South defeated ThunderRidge 14-4 in a high school boys’ lacrosse game in Colorado. The score was not unexpected, though ThunderRidge scoring first was a bit of a surprise.
The real surprise was the goal scorer — senior attacker Adam Hess.
Hess has autism and a rare neurocognitive disorder called partial agenesis of the corpus collosum. The two halves of his brain have difficulty talking to each other, causing him to have extremely slow reaction time in addition to the disabilities caused by his autism.
