For Brandon Schutt, a senior at Bellevue East, it would likely be his last cross-country event of his high school career. He and Omaha Burke sophomore Blake Cerveny on Oct. 14 were competing in a 3.1-mile A-2 District at Pioneers Park in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they, like all the others runners, hoped to make state. But when Brandon, who was trailing Blake by 30 meters, saw the sophomore crumble on the final 75-meter stretch, the senior had only five seconds to make a choice. Brandon himself knows what it’s like to fall and not finish. Three weeks earlier, he failed to finish in his own heat, letting his teammates down. “It sucked. I would never wish that experience on anyone,” he told cross-country reporter Jay Slagle—who captured what followed on camera and posted it on Facebook. Brandon reached down and lifted the sophomore’s dead weight, and for a moment it …