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(WMC) - On a Friday night in 2021, Justin Dye stood on the Corinth High School sideline, headset on, calling plays. Three days earlier, doctors had found a golf-ball-sized tumor on his brain stem. Four days later, he was in surgery.Head Football Coach of the Corinth High School Warriors(Randy J. Williams)\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019ve got a game Friday,\u2019\u201d Dye said. \u201c(The Doctor) let me coach in the game Friday night, and I had brain surgery Monday.\u201dThat mindset \u2014 get through the next 48 hours, then worry about the rest \u2014 has carried Dye through some of the hardest years of his life. In that span, the 36-year-old head football coach, head powerlifting coach, and head track & field coach has survived a brain tumor & surgery, a stroke, a shunt infection that triggered meningitis, and a freak weight-room accident that nearly cost him his arm and did cost him part of his hand. Through all of it, Corinth has kept winning, and Dye has kept showing up.\u201cNo matter what you\u2019re going through, you can still find a way to push through to be successful, to have, to still influence and impact,\u201d Dye said. A tired summer, then a terrifying MRIDye\u2019s ordeal began in the summer of 2021. He\u2019d just been promoted to head football coach at Corinth, where he\u2019d already spent more than a decade on staff. At the same time, he and his wife, Mallory, had just welcomed their second child.\u201cI kind of felt tired. I felt a little off,\u201d Dye said. \u201cI thought it was because I got promoted. We\u2019re going through just having a newborn and all the things that come along with that.\u201dThen, at a JV game that summer, his vision started cutting in and out.\u201cI\u2019m thinking maybe it\u2019s the glasses, contacts, something,\u201d he said. An eye doctor found his eye pressure dangerously elevated and ordered an MRI. Dye tried to push it off two weeks, until fall break \u2014 he had a division game against New Albany that Friday. The doctor called him back instead and got him in immediately.\u201cAs soon as they put me out the MRI, they called me back and I had a golf ball sized brain tumor on my brain stem,\u201d Dye said. \u201cIt had got onto my auditory nerve, my jugular vein, and it started to close my brain stem off. That was what was causing the buildup of pressure and my eyesight to go out.\u201dHe called his wife with the news and then went back to practice.\u201c\u2018Hey, just left the MRI, got a brain tumor, I\u2019m going back to practice,\u201d Dye said, recalling the conversation. \u201cAnd just kind of left it at that.\u201dA neurosurgeon in Memphis told him surgery needed to happen immediately. Dye negotiated. He\u2019d have the operation but not before the New Albany game.Dye was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and underwent a 20-hour surgery to remove the tumor. He now requires an MRI every year to check for new growths.Back on the sideline, in a wheelchairBarely two weeks after brain surgery, Corinth High School head football coach Justin Dye was determined to get back to the sidelines, by any means necessary.(McKinley Stewart)Dye missed two games recovering from surgery. He wasn\u2019t going to miss a third.\u201cThe whole time I\u2019d been in the hospital, my whole mindset is like, \u2018What is the checklist that I\u2019ve got to complete to get back?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI was still trying to get somebody to bring my computer so I could watch film.\u201d When he insisted on returning for game three, doctors warned needed a wheelchair. He didn\u2019t care, as long as it got him on the sideline.\u201cI feel like all of my players are my kids,\u201d he said of the decision to come back early. \u201cIf I start getting down about something that\u2019s going on, no matter how significant it is, it\u2019s just going to make it worse. My mindset is I\u2019m going to make the best of every situation and continue to work through it, because that\u2019s what I expect of them.\u201dBack at the field house, Mallory told his staff not to put him on the field or hand him a headset. Dye went around her.\u201cAs soon as she walked off, I was like, \u2018I need a headset,\u2019\u201d Dye said. \u201cGive me a headset. I\u2019m going to coach.\u201dA shunt, an infection, and a December-to-February hospital stayThe brain surgery left Dye with a shunt, placed after his head began swelling, a procedure that sent him back to the hospital even as he was still coaching games that same season.That shunt became the source of his next crisis. Last December, his appendix ruptured at school the day before winter break.\u201cI thought my stomach was just hurting really bad,\u201d Dye said. He had an emergency appendectomy, but within days his abdomen became infected and so did his shunt. The infection led to meningitis and a near-three month stay in the hospital.Dye had to lean on his assistant coaches to keep the powerlifting program running. He made it back for the postseason push. Corinth won its third consecutive state powerlifting title.Later that year, it was track & field\u2019s turn. They also won the state championship, their second straight.As for football, the Warriors have seen an upward trajectory since Dye came into the head coaching role. His first season ended with a 2-8 record, but the following seasons ended with 5-6 (2022-23), 3-9 (2023-24), 6-5 (2024-25), and 9-3 (2025-26) records. As of this report, they\u2019re 5-2 with playoff hopes very much alive.Corinth High School's mens powerlifting team raises the banner for their third-straight state title.(McKinley Steward)A dumbbell, a scraped hand, and 13 surgeries in JuneThe next blow came almost as soon as that school year ended. Dye was straightening up the weight room, trying to reposition a 125-pound dumbbell that had been set down crooked.\u201cWhen I pull it up, my foot slips and the dumbbell goes down on my hand,\u201d Dye said. He shook it off as a scrape and didn\u2019t think much of it. A day later, shopping with his wife, the pain hadn\u2019t let up. Dye will tell you that he\u2019s got a pretty high pain tolerance, so he thought it had to be extreme.\u201cIt might be broken,\u201d Dye thought. An X-ray showed no fracture, but the next morning, the pain was so bad that he passed out in the shower.Doctors ultimately diagnosed Compartment Syndrome \u2014 a dangerous buildup of pressure in the hand \u2014 which has to be surgically relieved. The wound then developed Necrotizing Fasciitis, a fast-moving flesh-eating infection. Dye underwent two surgeries at the local hospital in Corinth before being rushed to Regional One in Memphis. Doctors feared he might lose the arm entirely.The infection had spread up to his elbow, and he was hospitalized from May 29 to June 13. He underwent multiple surgeries and lost one finger to amputation, with doctors unsure for a time whether he would lose the entire hand.Why he keeps coming backCorinth High School head coach Justin Dye breaks down the game with his players.(McKinley Stewart)Ask Dye what\u2019s gotten him through this time, and the answer always circles back to the people around him: his wife, his three children, and the players he\u2019s coached for more than a decade.\u201cI\u2019m not going to let stuff like this take me out of it because I feel like there\u2019s too many people around me that are depending on me, too many people that I influence, too many people I take care of,\u201d he said. He\u2019s just as quick to credit his wife.\u201cIt has been an insane five years. You feel like you\u2019re just kind of treading water when you look back at it,\u201d Dye said. \u201cIt would be so much harder to do that without somebody like my wife.\u201dDye says his approach to coaching hasn\u2019t changed through any of it: show up, put in the time, and never ask a kid to do something he wouldn\u2019t do himself.He said the lessons he\u2019s learned have less to do with football and more with how he wants to be seen by the students and community around him.\u201cNo matter what you\u2019re going through, you can still find a way to push through to be successful, to influence, and to impact,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you have the support and you have close support from multiple people, it does make it a lot easier.\u201dHow to helpDye\u2019s family has set up a GoFundMe to offset medical costs from his ongoing care. 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