Jose Rodriguez, a student at St Edmund Prep School, died last Saturday after trying out for the junior varsity basketball school team.
Witnesses say Rodriguez, 15, fell unconscious while in a water break. Efforts to revive him were futile and he later died after being transferred to New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn.
School principal John Lorenzetti said the boy had undergone a mandatory physical exam earlier this year and had been cleared for tryouts. According to the principal, Rodriguez had never played sports before in school. Nonetheless, the boy’s father said his son was very athletic.
Results of an autopsy will not be known for at least another week.
For more information, go to The New York Daily News.
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