Maggie Meier, High School Basketball Star, Shot Hoops While In Coma

The human body never ceases to amaze us.

Case in point? Maggie Meier, a basketball star at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. The teenager wowed locals by shooting hoops while in a coma, The Kansas City Star reports.

Meier fell ill in early November 2008, just as basketball season was starting, according to MaxPreps, a CBS Sports affiliate. Then a freshman in high school, she was rushed to the hospital, barely conscious and having seizures. She soon fell into a coma, which lasted over 2 months.

Doctors diagnosed Meier with mycoplasma meningoencephalitis, a rare, intense form of meningitis, The Daily reported. Though her family worried for her survival, they discovered something incredible that gave them hope. Though unresponsive and unconscious, she would sometimes make the motion for shooting baskets. Her family began to put her into a chair, hand her a beach ball and pull the hoop close. She shoots, she scores!

Meier's neurologist told The Daily that basketball was so "ingrained as one of Maggie’s basic instincts" that her body remembered how to do it before it could walk or even stand.

When she woke up, it took months for her body to recover. She had to re-learn basic functions like walking and eating. But by sophomore year, she was well enough to return to the court.

Her story is certainly incredible, but it's not unique. In 2001, a 24-year-old woman gave birth while in a coma to a perfectly healthy 7 pound baby.

Comments

[madcityy]

12:33 PM on 02/25/2012

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

IF ONLY THE MILW BUCKS COULD DO THAT.............

[DickTater]

03:06 PM on 02/24/2012

Yeah, when her old friend Hoops showed up to wish her well, she shot him.

[nbptmom]

01:16 PM on 02/24/2012

I'm still confused by the comparison between a lady giving birth while in a coma...and a lady who shot hoops while in a coma...

But maybe after the lady gave birth, she then proceeded to knit the baby a sweater...while still in a coma.

[Banchee24]

10:49 AM on 02/24/2012

Oh HuffPost, as a legitimate news source, you truly suck.

[henrypapillon]

01:04 AM on 02/24/2012

So the lady gave birth to the baby and then made a basket with it, is that what they're saying? I'm confused.

[Quai DOrsay]

08:49 AM on 02/24/2012

Nope ... The baby used a basket to give birth to a lady shooting hoops in her coma ... Amazing!!! What a story

[henrypapillon]

09:56 AM on 02/24/2012

Now that's a story! What a headline!

[petey64]

12:16 PM on 02/24/2012

ok that's funny right there

[bmitche]

10:13 PM on 02/23/2012

The amazing human body.

[musomesa]

09:57 PM on 02/23/2012

I have had cerebral meningitis and the most frightening part is when you are aware that your mind is not functioning properly. When you are totally out is not a problem. I feel I know how scary something like alzheimers must be as you go through the stage where you know you are slipping away. In my case my short term memory took a while to come back. I would eat a pill and then immediately debate with myself whether I had taken it. Even when I tried to write down when I took the pill I would in the time it took to pick up the pen forget if I had taken the pill and written it down of if I was writing it down in order to take the pill!

[setanta54]

01:00 AM on 02/24/2012

what sometimes works is to put out the meds,lined up according to your schedule and then even if you don't remember taking it,you did as it's not there.--or take that paper,draw the boxes and put the pill where it goes for that day...
or asking a trusted friend or relative to put them in those dispenser type boxes you can get basically anywhere--they're labeled with the days of the week and have multiple compartments for am/pm etc and let them fill it up- and you can see where you're at and have one less thing to worry about
and if you have young ones at home,simply put it all out of their reach.

[musomesa]

10:56 AM on 02/24/2012

The trusted friend is what I resorted to. I could not trust myself to set up a regimen that would be foolproof. It was very instructive though as I now view mental disorders in a different light.

[wildtill9]

09:37 PM on 02/23/2012

Ahhh...whats the big deal? I go to work like that every day.

[Angie Daniels]

12:34 AM on 02/24/2012

hehehe... me too.

[Quai DOrsay]

08:50 AM on 02/24/2012

Hahahahah LOL ... You r not the only one

[giftoflife898]

09:37 PM on 02/23/2012

What a wonderful story. I am glad that everything has worked out for her and her family.

[JiveNJingle]

09:05 PM on 02/23/2012

This is incredible. Happy ending, absolutely.

But I can't help to wonder why they would compare this young woman to the 24 y/o woman who gave birth while in a coma. The baby was healthy, the woman's body was presumably healthy, and even if it was a natural childbirth, why would that be so amazing? She was pregnant. Where else would the baby go?

Continued good health to this young woman, and I'm sure we'll be seeing her in the pros.

[cas2dy]

09:55 PM on 02/23/2012

You said "Where else would the baby go?". Great question, lol. As my Mom has always said , common sense ain't common. I thought the comparison was rather an awkward one too.

[suesuern]

10:33 PM on 02/23/2012

I thought the same thing.

[Candace Ritchie]

08:42 PM on 02/23/2012

Now that's a girl who was BORN to play basketball!!! WOW!!!

[dvglass3]

01:28 PM on 02/24/2012

Oh come on...this has nothing to do with basketball.

[Candace Ritchie]

05:51 PM on 02/24/2012

Uh. She loves basketball. It's her passion, at least that's the way I read it. When her mind is barely functioning and she still makes the moves to play the sport, I say it's got a lot to do with basketball, at least to her. I find it absolutely amazing.

What's your take on the article?

[cathy66]

08:29 PM on 02/23/2012

That's awesome!

[jonathanzimmel]

08:22 PM on 02/23/2012

a kid in my high school was in a coma and apparantly while unable to respond he made the motion of masturbating

[uranfoevr]

08:45 PM on 02/23/2012

nobody needed to know that

[Chris Juarez]

08:56 PM on 02/23/2012

HAHA

[rebelsince1999]

08:12 PM on 02/23/2012

wow. God really must have a plan for her life

[Deanna Bromirski]

07:53 PM on 02/23/2012

My husband was in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks back in 9/2004. When he woke up he talked about things that you would not expect him to know, ie: who won the football game the one weekend, who had come to visit him or not, etc. Was very strange to hear him talk about things that we did not expect him to know of.

[setanta54]

01:01 AM on 02/24/2012

usually they hear fine and somehow remember it too.