Chance Gainer, an 18-year-old senior at Port St. Joe High School and star player for the Tiger Sharks, tragically collapsed during a football game against the Bulldogs and later died.
Gainer, who had electrified the crowd with a 70-yard touchdown earlier in the game, was playing defense when he suddenly went down, Northwest Florida Daily News reported.
According to Tim Davis, Liberty County Athletic Director and Assistant Principal, the collapse came without warning as Gainer trailed a play developing on the opposite side of the field.
“He just went to the ground suddenly,” Davis recounted in an interview with Northwest Florida Daily News. Coaches immediately rushed to his aid, but the gravity of the situation quickly escalated.
EMS was called, and despite the heroic efforts of medics who managed to regain a pulse, Gainer was pronounced dead at a hospital in Blountstown, just an hour after the game.
Well, that's the way it goes.
Nothing really out of the ordinary about it. 18 year old athletes die all the time.
It has always happened this way.
Nothing has changed in the past few years that caused this.
No need to be shocked, and do NOT ask questions.
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