(CelebNMusic247-News) Ted Agu Dies After Team Training Run
College football player Ted Agu collapses and dies after routine trainning run on Friday afternoon.
According to, Cal team physician Dr. Casey Batten said Bears defensive end Ted Agu, who died Friday morning after a team training run, had experienced no health problems during previous workouts.
Here’s the details:
The 21-year-old college football player was finishing a routine offseason run when he began “having difficulty” about 150 yards from the north entrance to Memorial Stadium, says Batten.
Agu, a junior from Bakersfield, was talking while being taken by cart to the Simpson Center medical facility, where he collapsed and became unconscious. CPR was administered, and Agu was declared dead shortly after 7 a.m. at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley.
Cal coach Sonny Dykes said at a campus news conference:
“This is certainly one of those tragedies, as we talked about to our football team today, no one can understand and comprehend.”
“Ted was a very special young man.”
While, CBSSports.com reports that a source confirmed Cal knew that Agu had tested positive for the sickle cell trait, but Batten said he was not permitted to confirm it. Sickle cell screening has been mandated by the NCAA since 2010.
A Cal spokesman said an autopsy would be performed. As for, the CBS story said sickle cell trait doesn’t mean Agu died because of it or that blame should be placed on the university.
But the story said that since 2000, sickle cell trait-related cases are the leading cause of death among NCAA Division I football players, with an overwhelming majority of those coming during offseason conditioning.
Agu came to Cal as a nonscholarship “walk-on” but was rewarded with athletic financial aid in March.
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