A photo of a student from Champaign Central High School in Illinois has gone viral.
Many people on social media have noted that the basketball player in the mysterious photo appears as if he is floating, thus his nickname: Float Boy.
The image has been shared widely on social media.
One mystery has been solved; The News-Gazette identified the player as Walker Stillman, and the photographer as Liz Brunson. It was taken Friday night at the boys’ basketball game against Danville.
“Most the people I’ve heard from ask me ‘What were you doing?“ Stillman told the publication. “I had jumped for a rebound and saw that it wasn’t coming my way so I kind of stopped what I was doing.”
Central athletic director John Woods produced a video of the play that led to the incredible photo.
“We wanted to squash any rumors that it was photoshopped,” Woods said. “Or that Walker was a Jedi.”
