Tributes have been paid to an Illinois highschool pupil who died after collapsing throughout a basketball recreation.

Cameran Wheatley, a senior who performed basketball for Bremen Excessive Faculty within the Chicago suburb of Midlothian, collapsed at round 9:20 p.m. final Tuesday in the course of a recreation at Chicago Agricultural Excessive Faculty, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Wheatley was rushed to an area hospital the place medics carried out CPR in an effort to avoid wasting his life, however they had been unable to rescue him.

The Cook dinner County medical expert mentioned the 17-year-old's reason behind loss of life has but to be decided.

Following the loss of life, Bremen Excessive Faculty Principal Dave Kibelkis paid tribute to Wheatley, calling him a "nice younger man who labored exhausting."

"We're extraordinarily saddened by the lack of our student-athlete," the principal mentioned in a press release. "He has been a fantastic function mannequin in each sense and he can be missed. Our ideas and prayers are together with his household, teammates, mates, and all those that had the pleasure of figuring out him."

"This should not occur to a 17-year-old," the principal instructed the Tribune.

Faculty employees notified college students of Wheatley's passing the next day. The principal mentioned college students had been doing their greatest to deal with the loss. The varsity drafted in extra counselors and social employees within the days following the loss of life.

"We're attempting to heal," Kibelkis mentioned. "Our children are doing a exceptional job of coping with this, dealing with this."

Among the many college students who paid tribute to their schoolmates was Joey Chicocki, who instructed Chicago TV station WLS: "He labored exhausting at basketball. I really feel unhealthy for him trigger he is solely 17."

Others additionally paid tribute to Wheatley on social media in replies to a Twitter submit printed by Bremen Athletics, which mentioned, "Cameran Wheatley, perpetually in our hearts."

One Twitter person, Jamie Bonnema, who does PR work for Chicago colleges, mentioned: "I used to be so unhappy to listen to this information. An throughout nice child who can be missed by many. Protecting the Bremen Braves and Cam's household in my ideas."

Kibelkis mentioned the college deliberate to work with basketball crew members and their households to do one thing to have a good time Wheatley and his life on the college.

One pupil on the college, Evan Winters, mentioned the temper was somber following his loss of life.

"It appeared like everyone in class is simply actually down," Winters instructed the Tribune. "Even for those who did not know him I feel it nonetheless impacts you."

Dad and mom additionally reacted to the loss of life of the 17-year-old, who had a clear invoice of well being, in response to his father.

"That is tragic as I do not know what," mum or dad Marcus Morris instructed WGN. "I would not assume something like that will occur at a highschool to anybody that younger."

One other highschool pupil additionally died final week after collapsing throughout a basketball recreation.

Fifteen-year-old Devonte Mumphrey, a pupil at Alto Excessive Faculty in Texas, collapsed through the second quarter of a recreation for causes which have but to be decided.

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