- May 6, 2024
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Raushod Floyd, a junior wide receiver for Seabreeze High School, suffered a shark bite Monday afternoon in Ormond Beach.
BY ANDREW O'BRIEN | SPORTS EDITOR
A 17-year-old Seabreeze football player was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon while he watched his friends surf in the ocean in Ormond Beach.
Raushod Floyd, a junior wide receiver, suffered lacerations to his right shoulder and arm area after a shark attacked him as he stood in chest-deep water around 12:30 p.m., due east of The Cove.
“I was watching my friends try to surf, and the shark came up and hit me in the throat,” Floyd said Tuesday, as he recovered from the attack.
Floyd said he fell into the water and then stood back up. At that point, he noticed his friend trying to get away from him, and that’s when Floyd saw blood and realized that he was bitten by a shark.
“I just started running out of the water,” he said.
Floyd received about 30 stitches and said he expects to miss about a week and a half of the football season. Floyd told emergency personnel that it felt like he was “hit by a freight train” when the shark attacked him. Floyd was transported to the hospital for the bite wounds.
After the initial attack, the shark was not seen again after the strike, according to a Volusia County Beach Safety report.
Seabreeze coach Marc Beach confirmed Tuesday that Floyd would miss some time due to the injury.
Seabreeze hosts Flagler Palm Coast 7 p.m. Friday, at the Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, in a non-district matchup. Last season, FPC topped Seabreeze, 11-7, when the Bulldogs scored their final drive of the game.
For live coverage of Friday’s game, follow Sports Editor Andrew O’Brien on Twitter at @aobrien7.
