PHOTOS! Here are pictures of Maikon Bonani, stable after a 35 foot fall at Busch Gardens. Maikon Bonani’s fall hospitalized the University of South Florida football star. His condition is currently listed as fair.

Bonani’s coach Jim Leavitt has issued the followings statement:

“Our entire program is praying for Maikon and happy that the injury was not life-threatening. I was able to visit him [Saturday]. He’s in pain, but doing fine and resting.”

Bonani is believed to have damaged his T12 vertebra. Busch Gardens says Bonani had been at the park reportedly “working as an attendant for the ride, thought the door might be unlocked and held onto the door to check it.”

The gondola then departed; Bonani let go at 35 feet in the air. Bonani is from Brazil and moved to the U.S. at age 11, earning high school valedictorian.