KNOXVILLE -- Twenty-year-old Tennessee basketball player, Emmanuel Negedu, passed out during an on-campus workout. He was defibrillated at the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center shortly after 3:00 p.m.
The 6'7" sophomore forward from Kaduna, Nigeria originally relocated to the U.S. to play high school basketball at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire. He was kept overnight at UT Medical Center for further tests.
In Knox County, defibrillators are on hand for school athletic events, including practices and games. The use of a defibrillator before emergency services arrive often makes a difference between life and death.
Vols basketball coach, Bruce Pearl, accompanied Negedu to Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for further testing. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a possible cause of the collapse.
