{"id":1579535,"date":"2022-07-29T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579535"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T20:49:11","slug":"college-basketball-player-20-drops-dead-from-cardiac-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-basketball-player-20-drops-dead-from-cardiac-event\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Player, 20, Drops Dead From \u2018Cardiac Event\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-basketball-player-20-drops-dead-from-cardiac-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579535&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A basketball player for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater passed away this week after suffering a \u201ccardiac event\u201d while at a summer basketball practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarhawk Nation mourns the loss of Derek Gray, a student-athlete on the Warhawk men\u2019s basketball team, who passed away unexpectedly on July 24th, 2022, playing the game he loved,\u201d the school\u2019s athletic department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a cardiac event,\u201d UW-Whitewater Men\u2019s Basketball Coach Pat Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkow.com\/news\/coach-whitewater-basketball-players-sudden-death-cardiac-related\/article_95bbf726-0e07-11ed-a5de-233e74827dab.html\">told<\/a> local media. \u201cHe had a blockage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Warhawk Nation mourns the loss of Derek Gray, a student-athlete on the Warhawk men&#8217;s basketball team, who passed away unexpectedly on July 24th, 2022, playing the game he loved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHkyMr23NP\">pic.twitter.com\/gHkyMr23NP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Warhawk Athletics (@UWWAthletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UWWAthletics\/status\/1552053637014327296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great kid,\u201d Miller said following Gray\u2019s passing. \u201cHe was very intelligent. He and I had long talks about basketball, life and family. He was a very engaging, sincere person. He was loved by his teammates. He had an ability to connect with people. And he showed up and played hard \u2014 to do what he could for the team. There are not enough good things I can say about him. The shock of this is beyond words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller said that when Gray collapsed, he initially believed the player was experiencing a seizure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a very surreal situation where you\u2019re thinking, \u2018Okay, he\u2019s going to be all right,\u2019 and then you\u2019re very scared and the longer it went on, it became apparent that this was extraordinarily serious,\u201d Miller said.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve been around for a long time, I\u2019ve seen a lot of different things. It was one of the most traumatic things I\u2019ve ever been a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gray\u2019s high school, Madison\u2019s La Follette High School, put out a statement remembering his time as a student athlete at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of Principal Mat [Thompson] and all [La Follette] High School Staff, it is with a profound sense of sadness that the La Follette community mourns the unexpected loss of former Lancer, Derek Gray,\u201d Assistant Principal Cullen Haskins wrote in a statement. \u201cDerek was a giant of La Follette basketball and Lancer athletics, and was at his best in the toughest games and most challenging moments. He was a true \u2018gamer.\u2019 His toughness and tenacity on the court will always be remembered, and his kindness and smile off the court forever missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a well known student-athlete and basketball standout, his presence and impact on the La Follette community was far-reaching,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cHis life, both on and off the court, had an enormous impact on all those who knew him. As we process this tremendous loss for our community, we ask you to join us in keeping Derek\u2019s friends, teammates, and family in our thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basketball player for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater passed away this week after suffering a \u201ccardiac event\u201d while at a summer basketball practice. \u201cWarhawk Nation mourns the loss of Derek Gray, a student-athlete on the Warhawk men\u2019s basketball team, who passed away unexpectedly on July 24th, 2022, playing the game he loved,\u201d the school\u2019s athletic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1579617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}