Brad Seaburg remembers the “crisis,” a real-life crisis, that happened on Presidents Day this year.

Strangely, it may have saved Elias Berthelsen’s life, which was already complicated enough.

Cary-Grove ’s football team had a 6 a.m. workout that Monday, Feb. 17, when Berthelsen, a diminutive defensive back and well-liked teammate on the Trojans team, approached Seaburg with worried eyes and locked them on his coach.

Berthelsen could barely breathe.

“It was a tough workout, but it wasn’t anything that was overly crazy,” said Seaburg, C-G’s head football coach. “When Elias told me, ‘I think I’m going through a crisis,’ I knew he was going through a crisis, because Elias doesn’t talk that much. He was sitting on the ground, and he couldn’t really talk. I said, ‘Hey, if you can’t talk, I’

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