By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Some days ago Thabo Sefolosha and his family took a rafting trip to Provo River, Utah where the Jazz forward helped save a woman’s life.
Sefolosha heard calls for help coming from Heidi Bishop and her friend, Lori Clark whose raft had been capsized and was desperately trying to stay afloat.
Thabo to the rescue!
“With about 20 minutes left on the trip, Clark hit a boulder in the stream and flipped over. Her tube and oars quickly floated downstream. Her life vest rode up past her head, and she was struggling for air.
“I always wondered how people drowned in small water before this happened,” she said. “The water was so swift, I couldn’t catch my breath. It was really terrifying.”
One of her friends, Heidi Bishop, grabbed her shirt and tried to take her along with her, but she was worried that Clark might capsize her as well. As she thrashed along in the water, Clark was hitting rocks in the stream, gathering cuts and bruises.
They asked for help from at least one other person as they struggled: He advised them to keep along as they were and then went on his way.
It was at this moment of peril that the Sefoloshas came up the river. Thabo asked if he could help, then helped lift her into his raft.”
Even though the Swiss forward of the Jazz had a modest reaction when asked about the incident, even saying that, “I didn’t save nobody”, Clark thinks what Sefolosha did was quite heroic. “The water was so swift, I couldn’t catch my breath. It was really terrifying”, said Clark. “He really did save my life that day,” she added.