{"id":12618,"date":"2024-10-01T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:36:16","slug":"kellam-students-help-save-mans-life-at-sandbridge-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/kellam-students-help-save-mans-life-at-sandbridge-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellam students help save man\u2019s life at Sandbridge beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kellam seniors Kellen Good, left, and Ian Arnett helped save a life while surfing in Sandbridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ian Arnett and Kellen Good had the day off from school Sept. 6, so they decided to go surfing.<\/p>\n

The Kellam High School seniors headed to Little Island Park in Sandbridge in the hot, sunny weather. They said it was windy and the water temperature was about 70 degrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of riptides,\u201d Kellen said.\u00a0 The beach wasn\u2019t crowded.<\/p>\n

The friends \u2014 fellow golf team and wrestling team members \u2014 had surfed for more than an hour near the pier and were about 90 yards from shore when they realized something was wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw these guys kind of waving us down,\u201d Ian said. At first, they thought someone saw a shark, but soon realized a man was floating face down about halfway between them and the beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdrenalin just kicked in, I guess,\u201d Ian said.\u00a0 He paddled over to the man, while Kellen headed to shore to make sure someone had called 911.<\/p>\n

Ian pulled the man onto his surfboard and gave him a firm hit on the back. \u00a0He had learned the maneuver at school and credited physical education teacher and wrestling coach Ross Benzel. CPR training is a VBCPS graduation requirement.<\/p>\n

The gesture made the man cough up water and take a breath, apparently opening his airway. Ian paddled with him on the surfboard toward land.<\/p>\n

Ian, Kellen and several others got the man off the surfboard and onto the sand. They checked his airway to make sure he was breathing. A nurse happened to be on the beach and assisted before the paramedics arrived and took over.<\/p>\n

The pair left as soon as they knew the man was OK and had medical help.<\/p>\n

Virginia Beach Emergency Medical Services Chief Jason Stroud applauded Ian and Kellen for their quick actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf not for these two students, there could have been a very different and tragic outcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely shook us for a little bit,\u201d Ian said. Both said they kept thinking about the incident that happened so quickly.<\/p>\n

Their golf coach Sonny Blackmon heard about what happened from Ian\u2019s father during the school\u2019s football game that evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle did they understand how heroic their actions were that afternoon,\u201d Blackmon said. Ian and Kellen\u2019s parents taught them \u201cthe importance of doing the right things all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellam principal Dr. Ryan Schubart said he is proud of the Kellam seniors, who exemplify the school\u2019s core values of leadership, integrity and unity.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the remarkable nature of their actions, they remained incredibly humble, seeking no recognition for their heroic acts,\u201d Schubart said.<\/p>\n

Both students said they reacted to someone\u2019s need for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in the right place at the right time,\u201d Kellen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ian Arnett and Kellen Good had the day off from school Sept. 6, so they decided to go surfing. The Kellam High School seniors headed to Little Island Park in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12621,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}