One of my school's football players dropped dead tonight.

[BreweryYardRat]

Just heard a few minutes ago. He was working out and he just keeled over. At a guess, I'd say aneurysm, but that's just a guess.

Poor guy was only 19.

[QMPMom]

1. Oh wow. I am so sorry.

[SeattleGirl]

2. How awful, sewolf.

My condolences to his family and friends.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. So tragic...

I'm so sorry. Did you know him?

[BreweryYardRat]

4. No.

I'm a little sad that I wasn't there. Doubt I could have done jack, but I was in the library, a few hundred feet away. If I'd known, you bet your butt I'd have made an effort.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. That's the hardest thing about things like this...

It makes you wish you were there. But you're probably right...It probably wouldn't have helped anything. :hug:

Every now and then I read a story about a young athlete who dies from a previously undetected heart defect. They never know until it's too late.

[flvegan]

5. At USF, right?

I haven't heard it yet. Crazy. Sad.

[BreweryYardRat]

6. Yeah.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Not a year goes by

that there aren't a few stories about this. I wrote one of them, in 1996. That kid was only 15.

One thing I learned in doing the story was that school athletic physicals are rarely sufficient, as are EMT services at games (never mind practices).

[crim son]

8. Could be a heart block too.

I remember reading somewhere the proposition that there should be a defibrillator available at all practices and games. This happens fairly regularly.

[reyd reid reed]

10. How horribly, horribly sad...

I hate hearing about things like this happening to young people. Somehow it just seems so....wrong.

[Rhythm]

11. condolences from the 'Eers to the Bulls...

the loss of a teammate or fellow student is always hard on everyone around them.