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04-01-2005, 01:14 PM
State: basketball player died of natural heart condition
Friday April 01, 2005
BOSTON (AP) A college basketball player from Boston who died after collapsing on court during a game in Worcester had a fatal heart condition, the state Office of Public Safety said Friday.
Antwoine Key, 22, who played for Eastern Connecticut State University, collapsed during the opening minutes of a game with Worcester State on Jan. 20.
An autopsy was completed shortly after he died, but the finding was delayed because the state medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death before consulting a heart specialist, said Katie Ford, spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Public Safety. The state received the results on Thursday, she said.
Key suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart due to a natural disorder of the heart muscle cells, Ford said.
``This is a problem that this individual had for a long time and it got to the point where it killed him during this basketball game,'' Ford said. ``There wasn't anything else that contributed to his death.''
Key, a 6-foot-4 senior, was a sports and leisure management major. He was a 2001 graduate of West Roxbury High School.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
In the interest of timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain occasional typographical errors.
Friday April 01, 2005
BOSTON (AP) A college basketball player from Boston who died after collapsing on court during a game in Worcester had a fatal heart condition, the state Office of Public Safety said Friday.
Antwoine Key, 22, who played for Eastern Connecticut State University, collapsed during the opening minutes of a game with Worcester State on Jan. 20.
An autopsy was completed shortly after he died, but the finding was delayed because the state medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death before consulting a heart specialist, said Katie Ford, spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Public Safety. The state received the results on Thursday, she said.
Key suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart due to a natural disorder of the heart muscle cells, Ford said.
``This is a problem that this individual had for a long time and it got to the point where it killed him during this basketball game,'' Ford said. ``There wasn't anything else that contributed to his death.''
Key, a 6-foot-4 senior, was a sports and leisure management major. He was a 2001 graduate of West Roxbury High School.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
In the interest of timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain occasional typographical errors.