If you watched Saturday night’s clash between Michigan and Penn State, you might recall the game momentarily being stopped while a photographer was taken from the field on a stretcher following a sideline collision. (And we know many people did see that stoppage because the Michigan-Penn State game drew the highest numbers of the weekend, earning a 17.6 overnight rating. That was also the second-highest rating of the college football season.)
Reports soon circulated that it was a student photographer who was injured. The incident in question occurred early in the second quarter after the Wolverines’ Karan Higdon scored a touchdown just inside the pylon. Higdon was pushed to the sideline on a tackle attempt and ended up colliding with the student photographer. Several accounts noted that she wouldn’t let go of her camera.
Here’s a clip of the play:
TOUCHDOWN WOLVERINES ARE ON THE BOARD on a 4th and goal but missed extra point Michigan 6 Penn State 14 #MichvsPSU ??? pic.twitter.com/cXFTPMcHVz
— ?Phenomenal One J? (@PhenomenalOneJ) October 22, 2017
The student photographer was identified as Samii Stoloff, a junior at Michigan who also does freelance photography work for Big Ten Network. As a result of the hit, Stoloff was on crutches, but was otherwise OK and tweeted about the collision shortly after it occurred to let everyone know she was all right.
https://twitter.com/samiihandstandi/status/922279106754105344
Obviously, her health was of chief concern and it’s great to hear Stoloff is all right after the initial report from ESPN’s Maria Taylor mentioned that the photographer suffered a serious injury. But for the purposes of her job, Stoloff made sure her story had an impressive ending. She got the shot! And it was a good one. What a pro.
https://twitter.com/samiihandstandi/status/921949201839378432
Actually, Stoloff took two nice photos of Higdon’s touchdown, which at that point in the game appeared to get Michigan back in the game by making the score 14-6. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, that was the closest they’d get to Penn State for the rest of the night in an eventual 42-13 blowout.