Coger died following a team workout on Thursday in Stillwater.
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Coger, 21, was taken to the Stillwater Medical Center after suffering from heat exhaustion shortly after 5pm on Thursday. The Stillwater NewsPress reports that the temperature was 99 degrees with a heat index of 105 degrees at 5 p.m. Thursday. That’s one thing. Making that phone call to a mother, there are now words.
An Oklahoma State spokesman says that the basketball player who died had finished a team workout on the football stadium stairs just before medical issues cropped up.
Cardiomegaly is a condition that results in an enlarged heart.
“The baseline disposition may already be there, but adding those factors can be like adding fuel to the fire”, Desai said. They did confirm that he underwent health evaluations before joining the team, however. He had severe headaches in high school which led to him being forced to have fluid removed from his brain.
He transferred after one season to Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he played last season.
“At the moment, I’m thinking ‘basketball is over, ‘” Coger told the newspaper earlier this month for the story.
Wall also posted a photo of the two from the 2012 Reebok Breakout Challenge. At the start of his sophomore season at Cape Fear Community College last fall, the 6-8 forward committed to Ole Miss.
“Everything he’s been through, it’s a shame that it had to happen this way, but he’s such a nice young man”, Mantlo said.
Holder said the workouts at OSU are left largely to the strength and conditioning staff, which was overseeing Thursday’s workout.
Shutt also said that under NCAA rules, basketball teams can meet for eight hours a week during the summer – time that can be broken up as two hours on the court and six on strength and conditioning, or all eight on strength and conditioning. Oklahoma State plans to release more details Friday about the death.
Like it has done in its painful past two decades, OSU pledged to unite during a hard time following Coger’s death. In 2011, women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna died with two others when a plane they were in crashed in Arkansas during a recruiting trip.
“Our No. 1 goal is to try to figure out some way to get through this, especially with family, and then try to take this tragic incident and figure out a way to make it into a positive”, Holder said.
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Last Oct. 24, four people were killed and dozens were injured while attending OSU’s annual Sea of Orange parade in advance of the homecoming football game when a 25-year-old drove her auto into the crowd of people near campus.
