Fridley High School was playing Simley on a Thursday night, December 13, 2007 in St Paul, MN. There were five minutes left in the game, when the 49-year-old referee, Dale Wakasugi, suffered a cardiac arrest.
“I went down, bam, and it was lights out. I don’t remember a thing, but a 16-year-old girl from the high-school ran out of the stands and started CPR,” Dale said in awe. The girl with the fortitude was 11th-grader Lindsey Paradise. “Lindsey was on me in seconds.” Dale confirmed. As more people gathered to help, someone grabbed an AED from the wall of the gymnasium. They attached the defibrillator to Dale’s chest and checked to see if it registered a pulse. The voice prompt announced that it was a shockable rhythm.
