HEROIC MOMENT: Aldine running back Jayden Payne pulls woman, child from flood waters
Sep 27, 2019, 6:16 pm
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HOUSTON - Sitting at home, due to the floodwaters around his area, Carl Semler's phone started to buzz. What was coming across his phone were photos of Aldine junior running back Jayden Payne standing next to high water outside of Aldine High School, holding a little girl in his arms. The little girl was the daughter of the woman that Payne had helped pull from the water just minutes before."Wins are great, we all want to win on the field, but when you're a winner in life, more than anything we want to raise young men to be winners in life," Semler said. "To me, today Jayden Payne had a win in life that is bigger than North Shore beating Duncanville on the last play of the game. This is a win that eclipses anything that you do on a field or a court. This is what education is all about.
"At Aldine, this is what we emphasize. If you live right and you treat others well and you do everything you can to help everybody else then the winning will take care of itself."
Around 12:30 p.m., the Aldine football players and Aldine Offensive Coordinator Louis Horton were heading to lunch when an accident on West Road. Because of the accident a BMW SUV went into the bayou that runs right next to the Aldine field house.
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