A Southern California Tragedy....

[ProudMama]

Please keep this family in your prayers.......thank you, Mrs. H


15-year-old Irvine football player collapses and dies
The Northwood High School student apparently had an asthma attack.
By CATHY TRAN, BRIAN PATTERSON, TIM BURT AND SERENA MARIA DANIELS
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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IRVINE - A 15-year-old football player at Northwood High School collapsed and died after practice Wednesday evening, police said.

Dylan Bradshaw, 15, was in spring football practice for the junior varsity team when he began having an apparent asthma attack and collapsed shortly after 5 p.m., Northwood officials said. He was a defensive lineman.

A physical trainer at the scene took him to the locker room, where he went into cardiac arrest.

The trainer initiated CPR, Irvine police Lt. Rick Handfield said.

Paramedics took Dylan to a hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m.

Handfield said it usually takes a couple of weeks for the Orange County Coroner's Office to determine the cause of death in these kinds of cases.

Police said that pads were not being worn. During the spring, football teams are not allowed to wear protective gear, according to regulations.

"Grief counselors will be here tomorrow (Thursday), and we will deal with it the best we can," said Dean Toohey, Northwood athletic director and assistant football coach.

School officials said that Dylan is the third student to die this year. One died in a car wreck, and another died from leukemia.

Because it's only spring, school athletic officials did not know whether the player would go onto to varsity or if he would remain on junior varsity.

Asked about whether Dylan would have been up to the varsity team next September, Toohey said: "It is pretty early to tell."
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/...-2054620-irvine
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[CalallenStang]

Very tragic indeed. I also suffer from severe asthma, so I know how scary it can be.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Bradshaw family and with each and every person whose life was touched by Dylan.

[Mustangsabu]

Really tragic. My heart bleeds for his family. God bless.

[PonySnob]

Similar thing happened at North Carolina A&T this week:

http://www.ncat.edu/~newsinfo/announcem ... wiley.html

[ProudMama]

Similar thing happened at North Carolina A&T this week:

http://www.ncat.edu/~newsinfo/announcem ... wiley.html

May his family find peace in the comfort of Gods love.

Here is a poem that was posted on the local message board that I thought was very fitting.....

"I'll play ball in Heaven, Lord
With my halo on my head
I'll run around the playing field
or use my wings instead.

I'll pick the players on my team
and when we win the game
I'll make the Heaven's Hall of Fame
Everyone will know my name"