According to Yahoo News Thursday night tragedy struck Fennville Michigan when High school basketball star Wes Leonard hit the game winning shot in over time to win 57-55 shortly after while celebrating on the court Leonard collapsed and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Leonard was the star of the basketball team and the quarterback of the football team. Leonard gave the team the opportunity to end the regular season 20-0 now they will go into the playoffs without their star. The coach reported that he was very well liked by everyone he was a positive kid always had the right things to say.
Leonard was a really good athlete it is just sad that he had to go the way that he did so young but yet you can say at least he passed doing something he loved. It will be hard for his teammates school friends and especially his family to grasp that their loved one or close friend is gone it is not an easy thing to do.
Why did he collapse? It is still unknown why it happen. I am sure that there are test and things being ran on his body now to try to figure out his cause of death. It seems like to me that this is starting to happen a lot now young athletes are just falling over dead there was another one that happen not too long ago but the boy was at practice.
I really feel bad for his family and the teammates I just couldn’t imagine losing one of my teammates like they did during the season I know it is emotional around there. There is nothing you can do to make things better because once he is gone he is gone it isn’t like you can just replace him. I hope that the team can recover from their loss.
I saw this on the news today, and I thought it was really quite shocking. I immediately was reminded of a similar event happened to a young man during football practice. I know in that event it was determined that he had died from a mixture of hot weather and a narcotic he was taking. I am curious if this event is at all related to drugs. I say this because I just find it extremely odd for someone young like this to just all of a sudden die. I hope my theory is wrong, and I to hope his family is getting through this difficult time in their lives.
ReplyDeletePS: Monty I wanted to thank you for your concern regarding my grandfather it meant a lot.
Colin S. Campbell
I am friends with this young man's cousin. They said he was in perfect health and that they didn't think he was taking anything.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned the incident to my dad and he came up with this theory. He suggested that it be what also killed John Ritter. He said it wouldn't be surprising if he had a heart defect that went unknown. Similar is what took John Ritter's life along with several other people. It's just an idea though...