Chase Stegall, the son of former NFL participant Milton Stegall and a soccer participant at DePaul College, was discovered lifeless in his dorm room on Monday.
Stegall, a 20-year-old sophomore, was found unresponsive round 8:30 a.m. Monday, in response to the Chicago faculty and the Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
“His loss will be deeply felt across our entire athletics and university family, and his memory will forever be a part of DePaul University,” athletics director DeWayne Peevy and males’s soccer coach Mark Plotkin mentioned in a joint assertion.
An post-mortem has been scheduled to find out his trigger and method of dying.
Stegall reportedly had a historical past of seizures, which he wrote about in a publish revealed on DePaul’s web site in February.
“My teammates and friends constantly checked up on me, too. They’d helped me get to the hospital, and sent me texts to make sure I was doing OK,” he mentioned. “Their kindness, their care, stayed with me.”
Stegall, a midfielder, performed in 16 of the crew’s 17 video games this previous season.
His father, Milt Stegall, performed within the NFL for 3 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and within the Canadian Soccer League for 14 years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
