A high schooler who went into cardiac arrest during a basketball game in Michigan remains on life support days later, according to media reports. Cartier Woods, a senior at Northwestern High School in Detroit, suffered the medical event during a game on Tuesday, Jan. 31, McClatchy News reported.
School officials said he was rushed to a hospital and put on life support. It’s unknown what caused his heart to stop. The teenager has not woken up as of Thursday, according to WWJ. “He was very healthy — he loved basketball,” Shantell Woods, Cartier’s cousin, told WJBK.
“He was very amenable, respectful. We’re just asking for prayer — we need it.” In the first quarter of Northwestern’s game Tuesday against Douglass High School, Cartier approached his head coach.
“Coach, I’m dizzy. I need to come out,” Cartier said, according to Douglass assistant coach Roland Eason, the Detroit Free Press reported. Moments later, he collapsed near the bench, according to The Detroit News. Players were “distraught, and upset and crying” as they watched coaches attempt to bring Cartier back to life, the opposing coach said.
“They did all that stuff (CPR) and the ambulance came and took over, took him down the street to Henry Ford (Hospital),” Jay Alexander, the executive director of athletics for the school district, told The Detroit News. “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.” (SOURCE)
