The temperature was 91 degrees with a heat index of 105 when 16-year-old Drake Geiger collapsed.
A 16-year-old Nebraska high school football player died after a heat-related medical emergency at a practice.
Geiger had a pulse when medics arrived and was treated for heat exposure and taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he died, Battalion Chief Scott Fitzgerald said. Nebraska high schools began preseason football practices Monday during one of the most severe heat waves of the summer.Geiger’s father, Scott Hoffman, told the Omaha World-Herald his son was 6-foot-3 and 389 pounds and had no known medical conditions.
Geiger is at least the fourth high school football player in less than a month to die during a practice or conditioning session, according to media reports.
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