A junior school basketball participant in Oklahoma has died after struggling a head harm throughout a recreation final weekend, his faculty introduced.
Ethan Dietz, a 20-year-old sophomore at Connors State Faculty, was pronounced useless Tuesday after struggling the harm on Nov. 22, the college stated in a Fb publish.
“Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to value hard work and being part of a team,” the college wrote in its publish. “While the team and the Cowboy community are processing our own grief, our hearts go out to his family and friends.”
Dietz and his teammates have been competing in opposition to Grayson Faculty on Nov. 22 when he spun towards the ring within the publish and went up for a layup, in line with video of the sport shared by Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV. As he spins, an opponent jumps and elbows Dietz within the head on his method again to the bottom.
Dietz is clearly injured on the play, taking a number of steps away from the courtroom and grabbing his face. Nevertheless, the harm isn’t clearly life-threatening on video. Dietz was taken to the hospital after the sport, and he died three days later.
“Ethan Dietz was a really, really great person to be around, he was always a social person, he knew everybody in town back at home and he can make any friends,” Dietz’s buddy and Connors State teammate DaShun Spence informed Arkansas ABC affiliate KATV.
Dietz attended highschool in Vilonia, Ark., about 25 miles north of Little Rock, earlier than attending Connors State in Warren, Okla, about 170 miles west of his hometown.
