Sun Bowl board helps Cougar’s family with medical bills
December 30, 2015
While players on both sides of the gridiron prepared to play in one of the biggest football games of their lives Saturday in El Paso, Washington State’s Riley Sorenson was in a different head space.
When WSU and Miami took the field at Sun Bowl stadium, a coach pulled aside the Cougars’ junior center and told him his father, Bart, who was in El Paso for the Sun Bowl, suffered a heart attack.
Bart is now in a coma, and Riley and the rest of the Sorenson family are still in El Paso, hoping he will awaken.
In response to the medical emergency, the Sun Bowl Board of Directors made a GoFundMe page to help the Sorenson family pay for hotel rooms, transportation, meals and airfare while they stay in El Paso. Over time, the board hopes the account – which has already raised more than $21,000 of its $50,000 goal in eight hours – will offset the family’s medical bills.
“Please continue to send prayers and positive thoughts to the Sorenson family. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated,” the GoFundMe page reads.
This isn’t the first time this year Riley Sorenson’s parents have had medical complications. After the Cougars’ victory against UCLA Nov. 14, Sorenson was informed his mother, Karen, had been hospitalized with Stage 4 melanoma and wasn’t expected to live until Thanksgiving. Karen is with the family in El Paso right now.
You can find and donate to the account by searching for “Sorenson Family Medical Fund” on GoFundMe.com.
Reporting by Dustin Brennan