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UC Santa Barbara Sophomore Nick Johnson Dies After Swim Workout
The intercollegiate water polo community has suffered the loss of another young athlete. UC Santa Barbara sophomore poloist Nick Johnson was found unresponsive at the bottom of a local high school pool and pronounced dead later monday morning at Cottage Hospital according to the Santa Barbara Independent. Johnson was 19.
Surgeon: Cause of Heart Attacks Among Young Often Undiagnosed Cardiac Issues
A heart attack reportedly took the life of USC freshman water polo standout Jon Walters on Wednesday, but was likely quite different from the kind of “classic” myocardial infarction that afflicts older heart attack sufferers, according to a pediatric surgeon familiar with similar cases. The physician, a former intercollegiate water
CBS Los Angeles: Walters Endured Multiple Illnesses Before Succumbing
CBS Los Angeles reports that USC water polo standout Jon Walters battled pneumonia and kidney failure before suffering a fatal heart attack on Wednesday. The 19-year-old rising star fell in to a coma on New Years Day, according to several reports, under circumstances that are still unknown. News of Walters’s
Obama Stirs Debate on Catastrophic Football Injuries
President Obama made news in the sporting press today for his explicit concern about catastrophic injuries among football players. In one of the lighter passages of an interview published today in the New Republic the President singled out the NCAA with regard to concussions among its football athletes: You read
