Producer Auh’shay Sanchez worked with classmate, and editor Dominic Jones to produce The Comeback Kid, a short film on the story of Aryus Jones.

Sanchez came up with the idea to tell A. Jones’ story and reached out to D. Jones for help with editing and camera – work.

Jones, like Sanchez and Jones, is a Junction City High School student that suffered a devastating injury during football season last year.

“It was a freak accident during a non-contact drill,” said Jones who broke his leg during football practice.

An avid wrestler, Jones was rushed to Via Christi hospital in Manhattan where he had emergency surgery the next morning.

After waiting two months after the surgery, Jones began working with the Blue Jay athletic trainers to get his leg as strong as possible before the wrestling season began.

In the first couple of weeks after the surgery an immobile Jones had doubts about his future in wrestling,

“I’m not going to be able to wrestle; I might as well give up now and take it easy,” were some of the thoughts Jones struggled with during his rehab process.

Seeing other wrestlers winning events, that Jones “knew” he “should have won” motivated him to work harder.

Jones went on to win the State Championship in the 160 pound weight class.

Sanchez, a junior at JCHS has already received video production scholarship offers to Kansas – area Junior Colleges.

The Comeback Kid can be viewed on youtube through the page Blue Jay Media.