Cal Football Player Collapses During Workouts (RIP)

[hood b. goode]

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_25085731?source=redbar

Cal team physician Dr. Casey Batten said Bears defensive end Ted Agu, who died Friday morning after a team training run, had experienced no health problems during previous workouts.

Agu, 21, was finishing a routine offseason run when he began "having difficulty" about 150 yards from the north entrance to Memorial Stadium, Batten said. Agu, a junior from Bakersfield, was talking while being taken by cart to the Simpson Center medical facility, where he collapsed and became unconscious. CPR was administered, and Agu was declared dead shortly after 7 a.m. at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley.

"This is certainly one of those tragedies, as we talked about to our football team today, no one can understand and comprehend," Cal coach Sonny Dykes said at a campus news conference. "Ted was a very special young man."

 

[PortCityProphet]

Damn that sucks.

 

[Chrishaune]

Never know when your time will be over.......

They said in the article it could have something to do with sickle cell.....

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

But don't give them any type of compensation besides a scholly Season just fukkin ended and they're already participating in team workouts

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

man cats really gotta get checked up and make sure everything is ok...if he had the physicals and everything was clear then man RIP sad thing so unexpected...my homie died running last year...dude had no health problems beforehand...gotta be carefull of what pre workout supps u take too that increases ur heart rate

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

Sounds like a heart attack. He obviously on the heavy side as a defensive end, I wonder how his cholesterol and blood pressure were looking.

RIP

 

[Serious]

@fkdmR

 

[ThugLife]

But don't give them any type of compensation besides a scholly Season just fukkin ended and they're already participating in team workouts

I just did a paper on this issue, breh D1 athletes put in around 43 hours of training, film, practice etc. a week despite the NCAA regulations

Thats a fulltime job dog

 

[FaTaL]

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

@fkdmR

Yea I was at the press conference, really sad cause dude was really a happy guy in general. Didn't have that fukked up I'm a football player attitude, down to earth and hard working in school.

But don't give them any type of compensation besides a scholly Season just fukkin ended and they're already participating in team workouts

To be fair, our season ended early and his health problems weren't a major issue during regular season.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Sounds like a heart attack. He obviously on the heavy side as a defensive end, I wonder how his cholesterol and blood pressure were looking.

RIP

probably Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is asymptomatic until something like this happens

 

[malbaker86]

@calh45 what happened bruh

 

[Serious]

Yea I was at the press conference, really sad cause dude was really a happy guy in general. Didn't have that fukked up I'm a football player attitude, down to earth and hard working in school.

To be fair, our season ended early and his health problems weren't a major issue during regular season.

0-11

 

[calh45]

@calh45 what happened bruh

Rigors of training. Just went down and never got back up. Too soon for anyone to speculate on what or the circumstances (i.e. was he complaining about stuff and they pushed him or if they missed something in his physical). Sometimes the body just breaks for no reason.

From all accounts he was the type of kid that you'd want your daughter to meet. He was a walk on and worked his way to a scholarship. He tutored the other football players. shyt sucks.

 

[Just Rod]

Rigors of training. Just went down and never got back up. Too soon for anyone to speculate on what or the circumstances (i.e. was he complaining about stuff and they pushed him or if they missed something in his physical). Sometimes the body just breaks for no reason.

From all accounts he was the type of kid that you'd want your daughter to meet. He was a walk on and worked his way to a scholarship. He tutored the other football players. shyt sucks.

Damn he really sounds like an all around good person. R.I.P. to him and prayers out to his family.