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For Cleburne and Highland Park coaches, a bond far beyond the field

Oct 24, 2024, 2:30 PM

When Highland Park's Mike Treviño donated his kidney to Cleburne offensive line coach Mason Williams, Williams got a second chance and Treviño got a second family.

For Cleburne and Highland Park coaches, a bond far beyond the field

Mason Williams was born in 1995 with one kidney but didn’t find out until the seventh grade. 

That Christmas Break was one of the sickest he’s ever been, laying horizontal in his bed for two weeks, unable to move without puking. His parents drove him from their Oklahoma home to a Texas hospital, a trip that should’ve lasted five hours but instead stretched to 11 because they kept having to pull the car over to let Williams vomit.

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