TACOMA, Wash. -- Kyler Osborne, 14, was practicing throwing the javelin at a practice track behind Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma on July 7 when he threw the javelin short and fell into it.

“Only a few people have been hit by javelins, I never expected me to be one of them,” Osborne said.

Osborne was practicing for the Junior Olympics when he threw the javelin short and his forward momentum carried him into the sharp end of the stick, while his father Gary Osborne watched.

“I’m standing like 10 yards away, and I’m looking and I’m going, ‘did that just happen?’” Osborne, a track and field coach at a nearby Pierce County High School said.

Neither of the Osbornes immediately realized the severity of the situation.

Kyler bounced off the javelin and thought that he had bruised his ribs because the pain wasn’t that bad, but he said on the way to the hospital it really began to hurt.

“It started to kick in, my body just knew it wasn’t right,” Osborne said.

The javelin, 600 grams of pointy polished aluminum, went in one side of Osborne, missing arteries and narrowly avoiding his lung and going right through his liver.

According to Osborne, he received four stitches and was told by doctors to take it easy for six weeks.

Osborne told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News he will be out at the track soon practicing for next year’s Junior Olympics.