A junior school basketball participant in Oklahoma has died following an harm sustained throughout a sport.
Ethan Dietz was a 6-foot-8 sophomore ahead at Connors State Faculty in Warner, Okla.
He sustained a head harm within the second half of a sport Saturday towards Grayson Faculty in Denison, Texas, and was transported to a neighborhood hospital.
The varsity introduced Wednesday that Dietz had handed away on Tuesday morning.
“Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to worth onerous work and being a part of a workforce,” the varsity mentioned in an announcement. “Whereas the workforce and the Cowboy neighborhood are processing our personal grief, our hearts exit to his household and associates.
“Ethan’s loss reminds us all how valuable life is and the way a lot these round us impression our lives. As we transfer by means of this loss collectively as a neighborhood, let’s be impressed by Ethan’s spirit, friendship and love.”
Connors State Faculty canceled a number of males’s and ladies’s basketball video games and scheduled a campus vigil to honor Dietz’s life on Monday.
Dietz, a local of Conway, Ark., began the primary eight video games this season for the Cowboys, averaging 11.0 factors and 9.4 rebounds.
