Basketball tryout collapse being investigated
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Posted 11:23AM on Thursday 25th July 2002 ( 23 years ago )
TIFTON - Hospital officials are trying to determine what caused an 18-year-old man to collapse during basketball tryouts. <br>
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Maurice Collins died Tuesday after he fell on the court during a game of five on five at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. <br>
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He was pronounced dead an hour later in the Tift Regional Emergency Center. <br>
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Collins had just arrived from Houston, Texas, to tryout for a basketball scholarship with the ABAC team. <br>
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His family said they did not know of any prior medical condition. <br>
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The coroner says it will take about a month to get tests back to determine why exactly Collins heart stopped.
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