November 21, 2009
Family fights to regain son's sports eligibility
By Anthony Bailey, Eyewitness News
WASCO, Calif. -- The Family of Renee Medina would have never guessed that their 18-year-old son could be so courageous.
The star athlete who wrestled and played football at Shafter decided to make the move to his grandmother's house in Wasco so that his stepfather could take in two children after their birth mother was killed. "I was proud, and I was hurt, but I said, 'OK,'" says Renee's mother, Veronica Gomez. Gomez already had several children in the home, and with the new addition she would care for nine in total. Medina felt it would ease the overcrowding at home. Several weeks after Medina enrolled at Wasco Union High School he was informed that Shafter had denied his request for an athletic release -- a form used when athletes transfer from school-to-school. "I was depressed. That meant I couldn't play football or wrestling," Medina says. |
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