Texas High School Quarterback Collapses, Dies

[Fox1994]

(Sept. 18) – A Texas high school's star quarterback died after collapsing on the field Friday night.

Reggie Garrett was a senior and straight-A student at West Orange Stark High School in eastern Texas. His family said he had a history of seizures.

Garrett jogged to the sidelines after throwing his second touchdown pass with nine minutes left in the game's second quarter. The team's medic rushed to him as he collapsed, and he was loaded into an ambulance as the game continued. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital around 9:30 p.m. local time. An autopsy is planned.

The 6-foot-2, 175-pound quarterback appeared to have suffered a seizure, his coach Dan Hooks told The Beaumont Enterprise. Hooks said Garrett's mother told him that her son had also experienced another seizure "maybe three years ago."

Assistant Coach Cornel Thompson said Garrett trotted to the sidelines, where his teammates noticed that something was wrong. "Kids tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Coach, Reggie,'" Thompson told the same paper. "I turned around and seen him on his knees and then moved him on his side. They thought he was having a seizure."

Garrett's team went on to win the game 27-to-6, against another school from Jasper, Texas. After the game, players, coaches and parents gathered at the 50-yard line to kneel down and absorb the news of Garrett's death, local TV station KBMT reported.

Later many of them visited the Baptist Orange Hospital where Garrett's body lay. "Most of the community was here at the hospital," hospital spokeswoman Susan Courtney told CNN. "There was hundreds of people in the parking lot, there was people in the waiting room, cheerleaders, drill team, band members, community support by the hundreds."

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[j.hen]

At least he went out a winner.

 

[Blade]

RIP Kid.....man...

 

[EmpireWF]

Surprised they never called the game.

 

[ram29jackson]

wheres the explanation/cause ? seizure is only half the story

 

[G-men]

RIP....looks like he was a good kid with a great future too. sad to see someone die on the playing field.

 

[Madman55]

I was expecting it to be a practice related story (Hot day, no water during drills), but it's a sad story either way.

RIP.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Surprised they never called the game.

Vince McMahon runs the school district.

 

[Houston]

At least he went out a winner.

If this was fuedel Japan he would've died with great honor.

 

[EmpireWF]

Vince McMahon runs the school district.

The show must go on.



(OT, in that same situation in 98, I don't blame VKM for not stopping it)

 

[Fox1994]

If this was fuedel Japan he would've died with great honor.

Or ancient Scandinavia, or Sparta. In Sparta, the only people who got grave stones were guys who died in battle.

 

[PNovak]

So sad for the kids family. Great support from the community though.

 

[Nukleopatra]

Black.

lol.

 

[Fox1994]

I knew that shit was coming. I was gonna ask - because I don't remember - why do you hate black QBs again? Do you honestly think blacks are more stupid/less intelligent than whites? I mean, are you honestly that racist?

Or are you aware of the fact that athletic quarterbacks often don't get coached to stay in the pocket and so don't develop as pocket passers? Not that that particularly matters... I'm just wondering what the beef is with you and black QBs. You seem to really hate them.

 

[citizenerased]

I knew that shit was coming. I was gonna ask - because I don't remember - why do you hate black QBs again? Do you honestly think blacks are stupider than whites? I mean, are you honestly that racist?

Or are you aware of the fact that athletic quarterbacks often don't get coached to stay in the pocket and so don't develop as pocket passers? Not that that particularly matters... I'm just wondering what the beef is with you and black QBs. You seem to really hate them.

You =

Fish caught, gutted, smoked and served with a side salad.