Sports are valuable additions to one’s life in terms of learning self discipline and facing problems. Sports give us stability not only by means of our physical health but also by means of mental health. Usually school rivals are common mainly due to some kind of a sport but at the same time it’s good to hear that there are gentlemen among us who knows the real value of sports. Among them are two prep rowers from Philadelphia.
As reported by the Philadelphia Daily News, James Konopka and Nick Mead who are from Episcopal Academy gave up their game just to save two fellow competitors who had capsized. They all were competing in under 17 doubles race at the Head of the Schuykill regatta when the incident took place on Sunday.
St. Joseph's Prep rowers Joe Leonard and Andrew Burrichter were having particularly a hard time with struggling with their boat and treading water in the icy river, Konopka and Mead made the decision to give up their start that could have easily made them win. Instead they helped the fellow high school rowers to get to safety, waiting with them until a safety launch arrived to get the St. Joseph's pair out of the frigid water.
