North Little Rock Basketball Player Dies At Practice
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A ninth-grade basketball player
collapsed and died during practice Tuesday afternoon at North
Little Rock High School.
Fifteen-year-old Sam Urton collapsed on the bench during a break
in a workout.
School spokeswoman Shara Brazear said Urton and the others
players had just taken a water break. The other players returned to
the court. A coach asked if Urton was O-K and he went limp.
Coaches called an ambulance and the youth was pronounced dead at
a hospital.
The teenager had passed a physical, and Brazear said the workout
wasn`t strenuous.
North Little Rock superintendent James Smith said extra
counselors would be on hand Wednesday. The death occurred at the
school`s east campus, for students in grades nine and ten.
