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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – If you know, University of Jamestown head football coach Shawn Frank you know he preaches “Jimmie Family” and what it means to wear the Orange and Black. What he and his coaches did for one player on signing day certainly is the epitome of “practice what you preach.”

Coon Rapids, MN senior center Easton Sorensen saw his career end in the fall of 2014 with a rare condition called chiari malformation. A quick Google search will show that chiari malformation is the pressing down of the cerebellum on the spinal column.

Sorensen was told he wouldn’t ever be able to play football again.

The Jimmies had offered the 2015 graduate a football scholarship prior to the diagnosis and when other programs pulled offers, the Jimmies help firm telling Sorensen he could join the program as a student-coach. 

Sorensen won’t ever be able to take the field at Rollie Greeno Field, but will walk the sidelines with Coach Frank and the Jimmie coaches as they try to return to the top of the North Star Athletic Association.

Dawn Mitchell with FOX 9 News in Minneapolis did a feature on Sorensen last night that you view by clicking here.