![]() As the boys and their coach enter the dark, craggy interior of Tham Luang, they walk right over parts of the rocky floor that flood for months at a time during the rainy season. Night's birthday party is this evening, so they can't explore the caves for long. After practice today, the boys and Coach Ek bike to Tham Luang, a massive underground cave complex in the Nang Non mountain range. The twelve Wild Boars-Note (age fourteen), Night (sixteen), Thi (sixteen), Tern (fourteen), Mix (thirteen), Nick (fifteen), Adul (fourteen), Titan (eleven), Mark (thirteen), Pong (thirteen), Dom (thirteen), and Bew (fourteen)-are a close-knit group, often socializing in their free time. The Wild Boars, a youth soccer team, are having practice this morning aside from schooling and family time, soccer is the main passion of these boys, under the tutelage of twenty-five-year-old assistant coach Ekkapol Chantawong (known as Coach Ek). To perform at the highest level in both categories is an incredible feat, and as I started All Thirteen, I wondered: could it live up to the hype? June 23, 2018, is a typical Saturday in Mae Sai, Thailand. Two Newbery Honors for an author in the same year? It was almost unheard of before Christina Soontornvat did it in 2021, an accomplishment all the more impressive because of how she won: for both a novel ( A Wish in the Dark) and a nonfiction book, All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, two young children, and one old cat. ![]() ![]() She is passionate about STEM (science, technology engineering, and math), and loves learning new things. She spent a decade working in the science museum field, where she designed programs and exhibits to get kids excited about science. in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Science Education. In addition to being an author, Christina holds a B.S. Her forthcoming books include the middle grade fantasy, A Wish in the Dark, and All Thirteen, a nonfiction account of the Thai Cave Rescue. Christina is the author of the fantasy middle grade series, The Changelings, and the early chapter book series, Diary of an Ice Princess. She is very proud of both her Thai and her Texan roots, and makes regular trips to both Weatherford and Bangkok to see her beloved family members (and eat lots and lots of Thai food!). “We unite in grief with all of Dom’s family, friends, former teammates and those involved in all parts of his life, as well as everyone affected in any way by this loss in Thailand and throughout the college’s global family.”įormer Thai national team captain and coach Kiatisuk Senamuang, who heads the Zico Foundation, said in an online news conference that he did not know the cause of death and that Dom had apparently been in good health.Christina Soontornvat grew up behind the counter of her parents’ Thai restaurant in a small Texas town with her nose stuck in a book. “This event has left our college community deeply saddened and shaken,” school principal Ian Smith said in a statement. BANGKOK (AP) - One of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 after being trapped for more than two weeks has died in England, where he was attending a sports academy, the foundation sponsoring his studies said Wednesday.ĭuangphet “Dom” Phromthep, 17, was found unconscious Sunday in his room at the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire and was taken to a hospital where he died Tuesday, Thailand’s Zico Foundation said.
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