Former Mustang sues Marble Falls school district, ex-coach over repeated concussions
AUSTIN — The Marble Falls Independent School District and a former head coach showed little regard for a football player who suffered 30 concussions that left him permanently disabled, the ex-athlete claims in a federal lawsuit.
MFISD and Cord Woerner, the district’s former athletic director and ex-head football coach, are named as defendants in the suit filed Sept. 7 by Blake Alan Ripple, 20. He graduated in 2011.
According to the suit, Ripple, at one time a lineman for the Mustangs, National Honor Society student and Academic All-District, “is unable to live independently, let alone go to college.”