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See the close relationship of the fields. All pretty much with in a 100 feet of so. Two would be an reality. JV baseball should have access to one at the other venue. Although you do pose a good question. The dollars?

 

This young man has lost his battle. God Speed.
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My family's prayers go out to him and his family how tragic yet God had a more important agenda and plan for him!!!!!!!!!

 

This is so sad. My heart goes out to his family. God bless

 

Nothing to do with sports training

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A medical examiner says a North Carolina high school basketball player who died after collapsing during a game had a condition that weakened his heart.

Khalid Prince, 15, of Winston-Salem collapsed Dec. 2 during a game between his Parkland High School team and North Surry High School. He died Saturday at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Forsyth County medical examiner Dr. Patrick Lantz told the Winston-Salem Journal that an autopsy showed Prince had an inflammation of the heart muscle that sometimes causes irregular heartbeat or heart failure.

Lantz said sometimes there are no symptoms of the medical problem.

Lantz said by the time Prince's heart was restarted, his brain had gone too long without oxygen.

 

The Church where I'm Senior Pastor is hosting Prince's service. His home Church is a few blocks away but is too small for the crowd expected for visitation & the Memorial Service (anticipating 1000+).

I must say: Prince's family has handled this situation about as classy as anyone I've ever seen. Eloquent, gracious, smiles through tears. No criticisms or threats of lawsuits or 'why me'...

Instead, they've praised God for being good and thanked everyone by name (through the media) for the effort to save Prince and the kindness that the community has shown. Some get bitter...some get better. They've chosen the better path. Sounds like Jesus to me.

 

What a terrible tragedy!

I work in the cardiac genetic testing field and many of the sports deaths we read about can be the result of inherited genetic disorders of the heart. These types of disorders will typically not be picked up on a rountine "sports" physical. The key is to try to determine if there is a family history of sudden cardiac death, unexplained fainting or other unexplained cardiac events in the family, and if so, have the child or individual examined thoroughly by a cardiologist.

My thoughts and prayers are with the family.

 

Today, Cuttino Mobley has just announced his retirement from professional basketball due to one of these disorders I just mentioned, although it's not clear if his is of the inherited type of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3762828

 

Last year, when my son went in for his sport's physical, the dr. suggested, just as a precaution, that he go in for an EKG or whatever, in light of these sudden, tragic, otherwise undetected, conditions. Unfortunatley, insurance doesn't cover these "well" tests and they are costly. It seems that we are hearing more and more of these tragedies. Should this test be a matter of course?

 

It would be great if they were, for the kids sake. But the EKG's, Echo's and genetic tests are all very expensive. In some European countries with socialized medicine, these tests are routinely done for free. Again, one of the key questions that MD's ask in relation to these inherited disorders is have there been any family history of sudden cardiac death, unexplained fainting or other unexplained cardiac events. If the answer is yes, you or your child should be seen by a cardiologist. Insurance may pay for testing if there is a family history of such events.