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Sports Related Fatalities in the US
Number | Date of Incident | Name | Age | Sport | Cause of Death | State |
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1 | 4/24/2015 | Laquan Pleas | 18 | Football | Cardiac arrest | CA |
2 | 2/17/2020 | Darian Keyser | 18 | Basketball | Under Review | PA |
3 | 3/2/2017 | Spencer Nicodemus | 18 | Basketball | Crush Injury to Torso (Equipment Failure) | MO |
4 | 2/6/2017 | Nick Bond | 18 | 18 | Blunt-impact head trauma | PA |
5 | 12/2/2015 | Austin Roberts | 18 | Wrestling | Congenital heart defect | IA |
6 | 9/19/2018 | Essence Glover | 18 | Baskeball | Unknown | TX |
7 | 3/5/2017 | John Anderson | 18 | Football | Suicide | NY |
8 | 11/10/2019 | Gabe Remy | 18 | Hockey | Spleen (Mono) | IL |
9 | 8/22/2014 | Walker Willbanks | 17 | Football | Hyponatremia | MS |
10 | 12/3/2019 | Dasani Green | 17 | Multi-Sport Athlete | Under Review | PA |
11 | 9/22/2018 | Samantha Davis | 17 | Cross Country | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | NC |
12 | 9/23/2017 | Maddie Potts | 17 | Soccer | Brain Aneurysm | RI |
13 | 12/10/2019 | Ariana Rae Delfs | 17 | Cross Country/Track | Epstein-Barr (Mono) | FL |
14 | 9/30/2018 | Dylan Thomas | 17 | Football | Head Injury | GA |
15 | 11/3/2015 | Luke Schemm | 17 | Football | *Inconclusive | KS |
16 | 9/9/2016 | Chase Lightfoot | 17 | Football | Undetected heart defect | TX |
17 | 9/23/2016 | Andre Jackson | 17 | Football | Peritonitis due to blunt impact | OH |
18 | 10/15/2016 | Brian Yuen | 17 | Swimming | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | TX |
19 | 2/17/2020 | Cody Walston | 17 | Basketball/Football | Under Review | IL |
20 | 12/9/2016 | Ryan Estrada | 17 | Wrestling | Enlarged heart that resulted in sudden cardiac death | MI |
21 | 3/28/2020 | Hayden Crow | 17 | Soccer | Unknown | NC |
22 | 5/26/2018 | James Hampton | 17 | Basketball | Awaiting Autopsy Results | NC |
23 | 7/25/2017 | John Lee | 17 | Basketball | Cardiomyopathy/Enlarged Heart | TX |
24 | 6/10/2019 | Elyse Purefoy | 17 | Dance | Unknown | GA |
25 | 5/9/2018 | Bryan McKinsey | 17 | Baseball | Accidental Opioid Overdose | AZ |
26 | 2/14/2017 | Alec Kornet | 17 | Hockey | Cardiomegaly/ Myocyte hypertrophy with hypergranular myocytes and epicarditis | OH |
27 | 8/20/2015 | Mark Lewis | 17 | Off-season conditioning | *Inconclusive | NC |
28 | 2/16/2017 | Donovan William Stratemann | 17 | Polo | Multiple Traumatic Injuries | FL |
29 | 9/20/2019 | Jacquez Welch | 17 | Football | AVM | FL |
30 | 1/22/2014 | Tabares Miller | 17 | Basketball | *Inconclusive | AR |
31 | 9/25/2015 | Evan Murray | 17 | Football | Intra-abdominal hemorrhage due to laceration of the spleen | NJ |
32 | 4/13/2017 | Quentin Lupo | 17 | Basketball | Suicide | NY |
33 | 9/22/2015 | Rod Williams | 17 | Football | *Inconclusive | GA |
34 | 7/31/2017 | Ty Rayford | 17 | Football | Currently under review by coroner | MS |
35 | 10/2/2015 | Kenny Bui | 17 | Football | *Inconclusive | WA |
36 | 3/4/2015 | Ja'leel Freeman | 17 | Track & Field | Cardiac arrest | MO |
37 | 8/12/2014 | William Shogran, Jr. | 17 | Football | Heat stroke | FL |
38 | 10/22/2015 | Andre Smith | 17 | Football | Blunt force head injury | IL |
39 | 10/20/2017 | Carlos Sanchez | 16 | Football | Accidental Blunt Force Trauma | AZ |
40 | 4/27/2015 | Amreil Watson | 16 | Basketball | *Inconclusive | AZ |
41 | 12/27/2019 | Marcus Kayal | 16 | Soccer | SCA | NJ |
42 | 11/4/2018 | Dominic Franklin | 16 | Basketball | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | IL |
43 | 5/1/2015 | Eric Medina | 16 | PE class | *Inconclusive | TX |
44 | 11/8/2018 | Jeremiah Williams | 16 | Football | Neck Injury | MS |
45 | 12/2/2015 | Drew Jacobson | 16 | Basketball | *Inconclusive | IA |
46 | 5/4/2015 | Andy Vazquez | 16 | PE class | *Inconclusive | CA |
47 | 12/4/2018 | Anthony "AJ" Gibson | 16 | Basketball | Unknown | VA |
48 | 12/26/2018 | Lenny Pierre | 16 | Basketball | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | NY |
49 | 10/5/2015 | Sumner Smith | 16 | Swimming | Cardiac arrest | TN |
50 | 5/7/2017 | Kimberly Nuestro | 16 | Basketball | Channelopathy (rare heart arrhythmia) | CA |