Teen Athletes’ Deaths Sudden: Heart Screening Needed

A tragic number of athletes’ deaths have been recorded lately. What makes it more tragic is almost all of them were teenagers. Four teen athletes have been died in a month and this is really an awful situation. Recently Wes Leonard died of a heart attack when he was playing basket ball. He was a terrific basket ball player for western Michigan high school. He was giving his winning shot when he fell on the ground because of cardiac arrest. He was taken to the Holland hospital immediately but he couldn’t survive.

Mathew Hammerdorfer was a great player of rugby and he was a heart patient too. He was just 17 years old. He died in the beginning of this month while playing rugby. Javaris Brinkley was 16 years old and he also died of heart failure after basket ball match. He was known as a tremendous player in his team. And here is another name Sarah Landauer who was a soccer player. She fell down on the ground while doing track practice and died. Sarah was just 17 years old. Urgent heart screening has been demanded after these tragic sudden deaths.