Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old former college football player, was identified as the man who flipped over the right field wall at PNC Park during a Pirates-Cubs game.

Jordan Markwood, chair of the fine arts department and choral director at Rock Ridge High School in Ashburn, Va., is the 2022 Washington Post Teacher of the Year. (Loudoun County Public Schools) ...

Markwood is on schedule to be released from the hospital in about a week, he told TribLive. “I think when I get home I’ll just put ice on it,” he said.

Kavan Markwood, 20, took his first steps since the frightening accident during Wednesday night’s game, the organizer of his GoFundMe, Jennifer Phillips, wrote in an update on his condition Monday.

Markwood recovering from fall In the last update from Markwood's family and doctors on May 7, they said the 20-year-old was recovering "ahead of schedule" given the severity of his injuries.

Markwood played for two Division II football programs, Walsh University and Wheeling University. He played at Wheeling in 2023, appearing in four games, according to the team’s site.

Markwood jumped up to celebrate a hit during the seventh inning of the April 30 game, and he ended up falling over the outfield railing and down more than 20 feet to the warning track at PNC Park.

Phillips added that Markwood can speak and encouraged others to support him during his “next phase of recovery.” As of early Saturday evening, the GoFundMe had raised more than $27,000.

Kavan Markwood, who fell from a 21-foot wall at PNC Park during a Pirates game, is awake and speaking, with over $27K raised for his recovery.

Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old man who fell 21 feet onto the warning track at a Pittsburgh Pirates game, took his first steps since the fall on Monday, according to the organizer of a GoFundMe ...

For Markwood, a 2005 UMaine graduate and former Black Bear captain, and his wife Ashley Underwood Markwood, a former UMaine women’s basketball all-conference player and Cony High grad, this is a ...

Markwood set a goal of qualifying for the first time in the backstroke for the state Division 1 championship meet. “That would put the cherry on top of my senior season,” she said.