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Wayne Sebastianelli, Respected Penn State Football Doctor, Dies at 68

Penn State Nittany Lions On SI·Mark Wogenrich·27 days ago
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Wayne Sebastianelli, Penn State's long-time director of athletic medicine who treated hundreds of Nittany Lions athletes, died May 4. He was 68. Sebastianelli served Penn State athletes for more than 30 years and is best known for treating former Penn State football player Adam Taliaferro when he was paralyzed in a game at Ohio State in 2000. "My heart is truly broken today,” Taliaferro said in a statement. "I speak on behalf of every Penn State football letterman when I say that Dr. Sebastianelli was so much more than our doctor; he was family. For me personally, his eyes were the first I looked into when I was paralyzed on the field. In that moment he gave me and my family something we desperately needed: Hope. Without him, my story would not be what it is today. "Doc didn’t just care for us in the game, he walked with us through life. There are no words that can fully capture what he meant to me. His passing is not only a tremendous loss for Penn State football, but for the entire Penn State community.…

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