Justin DeLuzio will forever remember his last NCAA cross-country race.
The senior from Gwynedd Mercy University in Pennsylvania has become a viral name after video surfaced of a deer violently crashing into him from the side mid-race.
It happened at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championships, around the 2km mark of an 8km race.
“Someone yelled, and I caught a glimpse of the deer, and I … I just didn’t expect it,” DeLuzio said, according to FoxSports.com. “It just flipped me end over end.
“I sat there in disbelief, I wasn’t quite sure what had happened.