Parling lost for season with torn ACL
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Just two passes into Saturday’s game at Tiffin University, Grand Valley State University junior quarterback Heath Parling’s season came to a sudden end.
The preseason All-American left the field limping early in the second quarter after tearing his ACL, giving way to backup Isiah Grimes at quarterback. Grimes, a sophomore, finished the game 10-for-15 with a pair of touchdowns to go with 143 yards and an interception.
“It was actually on the deep ball to Charles (Johnson) that got completed there down to the one-yard line. I just got my cleat stuck in the turf a little bit and it kind of buckle —I figured I was alright,” Parling said. “That next series, I was just running up to the the pile, trying to get Chris (Robinson) out of there and get those defensive guys off of him, and it was the first time I really had to plant on my right leg and it kind of just gave way.”
GVSU feared the worst after the game, with head coach Matt Mitchell speculating that once MRI results came back the prognosis would be a season-ending ACL tear — and he was right, as an MRI confirmed Sunday.
The average recovery time for a torn ACL ranges from nine to 12 months, effectively putting Parling on the sideline until mid-summer at the earliest.
GVSU defeated Tiffin 28-0 Saturday, but will be forced to go forward into this weekend’s home game against Ohio Dominican University with Grimes at the helm. Running the ball has been a point of emphasis in this early season, and that shouldn’t change as the Lakers move on with inexperience at quarterback.
“I feel bad for him because he’s put in a lot of time and effort to get to this point,” Mitchell said. “He can still have an impact on this football team, and he will have an impact on this football team because he’s one of our strongest leaders and is also very intelligent and understands what we want to do. I know that he will be helping out our whole offense throughout the course of the week and he’ll be helping them out on game days, too. He’s still a big part of what’s going to happen here in 2012, it’s not like we’re putting him out to pasture or something.“
Parling’s injury now leaves the GVSU offense without three of its top weapons from 2011, with junior tailback Hersey Jackson week-to-week with an undisclosed injury and senior tailback Norman Shuford redshirting this season after tearing his ACL late last season.
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Pictures of the Year 2012-2013
Courtesy Photo/Joe Kargula and Erik Peterson run the Marathon leg of the Ironman Triathlon
GVL / Robert Mathews Quarterback Heath Parling (12) leading the offense past Notre Dame College.
GVL / Eric Coulter Senior Jake Isaacson placed eigth in the Spartan Invitational. Isaacson's time of 25:04 was the highest among Division II athletes.
GVL/Jessica Hollenbeck Student Senate President Jack Iott speaks to the assembly during Thursday's meeting.
Courtesy / gvsu.edu President Haas and Montcalm Community College President Robert C. Ferrentino sign the transfer agreement
Courtesy Photo/ GVSU Athletic Department Sophomore Chris Cunningham lines up a putt at a past match.
Courtesy Photo / GVSULakers.com Andrew Darrell prepares to return the serve earlier this season.
GVL / Jessica Hollenbeck President Haas cooks pancakes during Family Weekend's "Pancakes with Presidents".
GVL / Jessica Hollenbeck President Haas cooks pancakes during Family Weekend's "Pancakes with Presidents".
GVL / Archive Forward Briauna Taylor (31) chases down a lose ball in a game last season
Courtesy Photo / Dean Breest Sophomore Allyson Winchester was named the GLIAC Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year after finishing first with a time of 20:48.8.
GVL / Archive GVSU's Breland Hogan rises and fires over three defenders last season.
GVL/Bo Anderson Briauna Taylor leads the fast break during a game earlier this season.
GVL / Robert Mathews Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning, James Moyer, leading a walk through of the Mary Ideam Pew Library
Courtesy Photo / GVSU DII Men's Hockey Jeremy Christopher chases down a puck during a matchup last season.
GVL / Bo Anderson Students and faculty danced under the spectacular light show in the Devos Place Ballroom
GVL / Robert Mathews Martin L�wenberg, holocaust survivor, speaking at the Genocide Awareness Night presentation in the Grand River Room.
Courtesy / Dean Breest Senior Sam Lockhart finishes her indoor career with two individual national championships in weight throw and shot put at the 2013 National Championships.
Archive / Robert Mathews Giancarlo Brugnoni (40) rounding the bases during a previous game.
GVL/Bo Anderson Seniors Christ Koppenaal, Bill Madsen, and Mitch Weber measure the exterior of the Wesley House as part of an energy audit.
GVL / Robert Mathews Senior Anthony Campanella pitching against Tiffin University during the Lakers double header.
GVL / Eric Coulter Brother Jed Smock, a member of Campus Ministry USA, speaks with fervor to a student. Many students, all with differing views, came to watch the Campus Ministry members speak.
GVL / Sean Mouton A passing walker stops to admire some recently constructed pieces of Art Prize 2012.
GVL Archive Senior Nick Gunthorpe follows through and watches his shot at the Ardenson last year. This weekend the team will be playing in South Haven.
GVL / Bo Anderson GVSU's Katie Martin points to her teammate after safely reaching second base.
GVL / Robert Mathews Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons under construction.
GVL / Archive The Grand Valley Rowing Team during Spring Training in Florida last spring.
GVL / Robert Mathews Judge Glenda Hatchett, keynote guest for Monday's King celebration, speaks in the Grand River Room in Kirkhof.
GVL / Robert Mathews Judge Glenda Hatchett, keynote guest for Monday's King celebration, speaks in the Grand River Room in Kirkhof.
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