University of Michigan basketball recruit Austin Hatch is recovering slowly but steadily from injuries sustained in a plane crash on June 24, according to a story published today on espn.com.

The story details the Hatch’s history as a family that would fly anywhere and held by the motto that “Life is to be lived.”

The plane crash occurred less than two weeks after Hatch committed to play basketball at the Michigan. Hatch had just completed his sophomore year at Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, and step-mother, Kim Hatch, both died in the crash.

The Hatch family regularly updates Austin’s CaringBridge page. The page, designed for the family to update other family and friends has over 138,000 page views since its inception.