A college lacrosse player is being forced to sit on the sidelines because he's got a big head, and no one can find a helmet big enough to protect it.

The Boston Globe interviewed Wheaton College freshman Alex Chu, who said that without a helmet approved by the NCAA, he is permitted only to run sprints with the team and cannot play in games when the season begins.

“Lacrosse is kind of my whole life,” Chu told the Globe. “I can’t remember ever going this long without playing.”

While Chu was in Nipmuc Regional High School in Massachusetts, according to the Globe, he wore a helmet made by a local manufacturer that fused the front and back of two different helmets. With the fabricator now out of business, Chu awaits for one of two of the main manufacturers of lacrosse helmets, Cascade-Maverik and Warrior, to craft and fit him with a custom-made helmet approved by the NCAA.

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