About one hundred and twenty feet of floodwater. That was the distance between the bank of the Little Sioux River and the 12-year-old boy clinging to the base of a utility pole in Spencer, Iowa.
It was the afternoon of May 9, 2024. Two boys, both 12, were riding their bicycles along a bike path when the current swept them both downstream and off their bikes.
The surface of the river looked calm. Underneath, the water was fast and cold.
One boy ended up in a thicket of trees in waist-deep water. The other was carried farther out, to the concrete base of a utility pole, where he climbed atop it just above the water's surface.
Evan Scheck was 28 years old and taught history and social studies at Spencer High School. That afternoon he was coaching the girls tennis team on a court near the river when a couple walked up and told him two boys were in the water.
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Scheck, another coach, and members of the tennis team ran to the flooded bank. Scheck pulled off his shoes and socks and went in.
The other coach helped survey the scene and located the boys through the brush. He alerted Scheck, who waded to the first boy in waist-deep water and helped him wade to safety.
Then Scheck turned back toward the river. The second boy was still out there, alone on the pole.
Scheck waded about sixty feet through submerged brush. Then he swam another sixty through a swift current too deep to stand in, tangled brush scraping his legs and feet the whole way.
He reached the pole and found a spot beside it where he could stand with his head slightly above water. He convinced the boy to climb onto his back. The boy climbed on. Scheck attempted to swim back toward wadable water. He submerged.
The current was too strong for two. Scheck brought the boy back to the base of the pole and the boy climbed on top of it again. Scheck did not leave. He stayed in the water beside the boy and waited.
Within minutes a Spencer police officer reached the bank carrying a rescue disc fitted with a rope. The officer waded in to his chest and threw the disc out to Scheck.
Scheck talked the boy into the water one more time. He wrapped one arm around the boy and gripped the disc and rope with his free hand.
The officer pulled. Scheck kicked. They reached wadable water. All three exited the floodwaters to safety.
The boy was uninjured and was driven home from the scene. Scheck suffered minor abrasions to his feet and lower legs.
He went back to teaching history and social studies at Spencer High School. In September 2026, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded him the Carnegie Medal.
When a reporter asked what went through his mind before he entered the river, Scheck said: "If not me, then who?"
If the current pulled you both under on the first try, would you have asked the boy to let go of the pole a second time?
