Pictured: Jake Bilsborow before the accident
A teenage football star months from cracking the AFL will never walk again after he plunged six metres into waterhole and severed his spinal cord.
Jake Bilsborow knocked off early on Wednesday and headed to the popular swimming in Bridgewater in Adelaide Hills to cool off with some friends.
The 18-year-old took a running jump to launch himself into the water, but slipped on some wet leaves and plummeted into the rocks below.
He was lucky to be alive after breaking his back, scalp, collar bones, two ribs, and his spinal cord, but is struggling with the idea that he will never use his legs again.