Scott Beigel To Be Posthumously Honored At 2018 ESPY Awards

Long Island native Scott Beigel, a teacher and coach at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who died protecting students during a shooting that killed 17 people earlier this year, will be honored at the 2018 ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.

Beigel and two other Marjory Stoneman Douglas coaches, Aaron Feis and Chris Hixon, will be posthumously honored with the ESPN's Best Coach Award in 2018. The ESPYS begin at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Beigel was a geography teacher and the school's cross country coach. Feis was an assistant football coach and Hixon was a wrestling coach and the school's athletic director, according to USA TODAY.

Beigel was born and raised in Dix Hills. He was struck by a bullet as he shut a classroom door behind him. He had unlocked his classroom briefly to let more students take shelter, the Miami Herald reported.

Kelsey Friend, a student in Beigel's class, recalled her teacher's heroic actions to Good Morning America:

"When he opened the door, he had to re-lock it so we could stay safe, but he didn't get the chance to," Friend said through tears. "And I'm so thankful that he was there to help everybody who did live in that classroom because he was in the doorway and the door was still open, and the shooter probably didn't know we were in there because Mr. Beigel was laying on the floor."

Friend also told CNN that "Mr. Beigel was my hero and he still will forever be my hero."

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