Funeral Saturday for high school cross country runner

DECATUR - The DeKalb County high school student who collapsed and died after completing a 5-kilometer cross country race will be laid to rest Saturday. <br> <br> Sixteen-year-old Shai Lauren Owens -- who was a junior at Cedar Grove High School -- was rushed to a hospital Tuesday and pronounced dead two hours later. <br> <br> Owners died of complications resulting from an abnormal heart valve. <br> <br> Marian Huhman, the mother of a Dunwoody High School runner and a trained nurse, came to Owens&#39; aid after she collapsed. She said several of Owens&#39; teammates checked to see if the girl was all right. <br> <br> Huhman said she and Doctor Doug Hamilton, a CDC epidemiologist who is the father of another Dunwoody High athlete, began performing CPR. <br> <br> DeKalb school policy requires students&#39; parents to sign permission forms that ask about pre-existing medical conditions. <br> <br> Huhman said the cross country race was over, and the girl had finished the 3.1-mile race when she collapsed. The race at Shamrock Middle School was the first of the season run by any DeKalb public school.

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