Luke's Legacy

The Story of Luke Siegel

In 2015, a 9-year-old boy named Luke and a friend were left unsupervised in a golf cart while playing at a friend’s house. The golf cart tipped over and landed on Luke. When his dad arrived at the hospital he was told, “Luke has been in cardiac arrest for 7 minutes. He has suffered head and chest trauma.” Life changed that afternoon in July for the Siegel family. Just twenty days before the accident Tim Siegel, Luke’s dad, resigned as the tennis coach at Texas Tech (where he had been the past 23 years) to spend more time with his wife Jenny and their four beautiful children. Luke spent the next six months in extensive treatment, brain surgeries, and therapy. Luke’s MRI was so bad the neurologist told the Siegel family that Luke would never use his voice or his limbs. “My little Luke was the greatest fighter I’ve ever seen,” says Tim Siegel. The Lubbock community stepped up and supported the Siegel family after the accident. “Fight Like Luke” and “Pray for Luke” became regular phrases in the town’s vocabulary.