Softball Team Shares Their Miracle After Bus Accident, 'God Was There With Us That Night'

A softball team shares their miracle after a bus accident, ‘God was there with us that night.’ Are you ready for your faith to be strengthened? To read a story that is full of miracles? Let me tell you about 13 lives that were thinking their evening would’ve been so routine and normal, but they walked out of wreckage that has so many people talking.

The night should’ve ended differently, but there was a deer in the road, a bus carrying a coach, two assistants, and ten bright-eyed girls. And then it happened, a rollover on State Highway 152. Shattered glass. Screams. Silence.

They Were All Still Breathing After the Softball Team Bus Accident

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But when the dust settled, every single one of them was breathing. Bruised, broken, shaken—but alive.

Coach Cody Schmidt says it plainly, almost as if he’s still trying to believe it himself: “The 13 of us on the bus should not be alive… God. A miracle.”

And isn’t that just it? The hand of God was everywhere, in places you couldn’t see—yet you could feel. In the way parents driving behind the bus leapt into fields, running barefoot toward wreckage. In the way high schoolers threw fear aside to check pulse after pulse, name after name. One girl carried her coach out of twisted steel. The way community and courage rose up like holy fire.

We Can See God’s Fingerprints

If you look close enough, you see His fingerprints: on the broken bus, on the scattered dirt, on every single spared heartbeat.

Because there is no other explanation, this story should’ve ended in loss. But instead, it ends in awe.

Yes, there are injuries. Yes, there are scars—both visible and invisible. But there is also this truth: God’s protection wrapped around that bus like unseen armor, and when the enemy tried to steal life, heaven pushed back.

Miracles Don’t Always Look Like Lightning Bolts

Miracles don’t always look like lightning bolts. Sometimes they look like a bus on its side and 13 souls crawling out alive. Sometimes they sound like a coach whispering, “How are my girls?” when his body aches but his heart beats gratitude. Sometimes they look like a team, forever bonded, stronger than the scoreboard, stronger than the season.

And maybe that’s the gift—that in the wreckage of what should have been the end, God writes the beginning of a deeper story. A story of faith, family, and the kind of miracle you can only explain with one word: Jesus.

All 13 lives were spared. All 13 were carried in the palm of His hand. What a mighty God we believe in! This story needs to be shared and reshared to remind us all that God is carrying us through whatever life throws our way.

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Psalm 91:11-12 “For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.”

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Heather Riggleman is a believer, wife, mom, author, social media consultant, and full-time writer. She lives in Minden, Nebraska with her kids, high school sweetheart, and three cats who are her entourage around the homestead. She is a former award-winning journalist with over 2,000 articles published. She is full of grace and grit, raw honesty, and truly believes tacos can solve just about any situation. You can find her on GodUpdates, iBelieve, Crosswalk, Hello Darling, Focus On The Family, and in Brio Magazine. Connect with her at www.HeatherRiggleman.com or on Facebook.