A Wisconsin high school football player has died at the age of 17 due to injuries he sustained in a recent game.Adam Massman, a rising senior at Alma Center Lincoln High School, played both quarterback and defensive back on the team. Massman, who also played baseball and basketball, was about to begin his final year when he suffered the undisclosed injuries. An open letter from Alma Center-Humbird-Merrillan School District superintendent Drew Semingson read: ‘Adam was injured during Thursday night’s football game. He received medical support from EMT[s] who were onsite at the game, before being transported to the hospital.’This loss touches our Lincoln family in many ways,’ the letter continued. ‘Adam’s family has deep connections throughout our schools, including his mother, Mrs. Brianne Massman, our elementary school counselor; a sibling at the Jr High; his uncle and aunt, Mr. Jake Prindle and Mrs. Nicki Prindle, who are teachers at Lincoln Elementary; his uncle Mr. Sam Prindle, who serves on the Lincoln School Board; along with other relatives on staff and friends and family throughout the student body.’Massman was remembered as being an active member of the school’s community and someone who was ‘making friends everywhere he went.’ Adam Massman, a multi-sport athlete from Wisconsin, has died at the age of 17 Adam (seen with his mother, Brianne) died from a helmet-to-helmet collision playing footballThe district has made counselors available to all students across the first two days of the school year. While specifics of the injuries were not revealed, Massman’s mother, Brianne, said the family was told there was ‘helmet-to-helmet contact’ during the game, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. ‘I mean, no one would ever think something that severe would really happen,’ she told the outlet. ‘We’re just completely devastated.”Playing sports with his friends was one of his favorite things — throwing touchdown passes, landing strikes, running in relays … you name it, he was there,’ Adam’s obituary reads. ‘The friendships he made in all aspects of his life were incredibly important to him.’Friends at the school paid tribute to the teenager by painting his parking space, adding the letters ‘LLA’ – standing for ‘Long Live Adam’. In addition, according to WEAU, friends honored his family’s cattle business and the tire tracks on his truck.’Our home will never be the same,’ the obituary continued. ‘Our hearts are here but they are broken. In addition to sports, Adam was an animal lover and worked as a cattle showman’We’ll remember Adam and love him, but our hearts will ache because he’s not here. And yet, somehow, our hearts will also remain full because we did have him for 17 wonderful and perfect years.’In addition to sports, Massman was a lover of animals and had experience as a cattle showman growing up.’To put it simply, there are no words … only a range of feelings and emotions,’ the Jackson County Fair wrote in a statement via Facebook on Sunday, August 23. ‘There is shock; the kind that leaves you searching for an explanation when none seems possible. ‘We extend our deepest sympathies, thoughts, and continued prayers to the family, friends, and fellow exhibitors of one hell of a cattleman and showman.’