A Detroit high school student is on life support after going into cardiac arrest during a basketball game Tuesday.
Cartier Woods, a senior at Northwestern High School, was playing in a varsity game against Frederick Douglass Academy when the incident occurred, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Detroit Public Schools Community District superintendent Nikolai Vitti told the outlet that CPR was administered before Woods was rushed to nearby Henry Ford Hospital.
The young man was placed on life support, Vitti said.
Athletic director Jay Alexander told The Detroit News that early in the first quarter, Woods “took himself out of the game, then collapsed near the bench.”
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“He was sitting on the sideline and just collapsed,” Alexander told the News. “He felt like something was wrong, so he just told the coach he needed to come out of the game because he wasn’t feeling well.”
Alexander said all schools in the public school league, including Northwestern, have an automatic external defibrillator, or AED.
“They did all that stuff [CPR] and the ambulance came and took over, took him down the street to Henry Ford,” he said, the News reported. “He was never alert, that’s why I guess they are saying cardiac arrest, because his heart stopped, but it wasn’t a heart attack.”
Pierre Brooks Sr., the coach of Douglass Academy, called it “a pretty tragic scene.”
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The game was halted and the gym was emptied after Woods’ collapse, he said, comparing the situation to the one that occurred when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during “Monday Night Football” last month.
“It was mutual that based on the emotions of his players and my players and fans that it wouldn’t be good if we’d continue,” Brooks told the News, adding, “We’re all praying for him.”
WXYZ-TV reported Wednesday that the young athlete was in the intensive care unit, “where family members say his recovery is up in the air.”
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