OT: Oklahoma State basketball player Tyrek Coger dies following workout
Oklahoma State men’s basketball player Tyrek Coger, 21, collapsed after a 40-minute team workout on the football stadium stairs in hot weather, university officials said Friday.
Coger, a junior college transfer from Raleigh, N.C., was transported to Stillwater Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. local time.
Link: http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/oklahoma-state-basketball-player-dies-thursday-after-collapsing-in-practice
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"KFOR in OKC reports that the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office has concluded that Coger died from cardiomegaly with left ventricular hypertrophy."
You're not a community college. You're a major university. Why aren't every single one of your incoming players being put through a medical stress test, EKG and cardiac ultrasound before they're allowed to join the team, and then maybe once a year?
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I spent 2 years at a CC before university. Great school - learned a ton. But they did not have any sort of medical facility nor any partnerships with major hospitals ... nor like, locker rooms, or formal office buildings, etc.
Do any schools do this for every incoming player?
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Just because he had an enlarged heart at the time of death doesn't mean it was always like that. There are many factors that could have caused it after a screening was done. Let's not just play the blame game here because it's more complicated than that.
Young healthy athlete, sudden death. Classic etiology.
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Terrible news. Condolensces to his family and the OSU community.
They called 911 just after 5 pm. It was somewhere around 100 degrees and 50% humidity in Stillwater yesterday about that time. I think it hit 102 degrees today. It was probably even hotter in the football stadium where the basketball team was running stairs. Maybe I'm just a wuss, but I now live in central Oklahoma, and when the weather gets like this I try to spend as little time as possible with as little exertion as possible. Granted, it doesn't sound like he died of heat stroke, but why in the world are they doing this at 4 pm instead of 8 or 9 am?
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Very sad. RIP.