A nearly 300-pound, 16-year-old high-school football player collapsed on the field during practice on Staten Island Monday morning and died, cops said.
Miles Kirkland, a varsity football player at Curtis HS, went into cardiac arrest on the field at about 10:45 a.m., police sources said.
The 6-foot-2 inch, 295-pound offensive lineman was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Medical Examiner’s Office was to determine the cause of death. The preliminary classification was natural causes and no criminality was suspected.
Kirkland’s friends and teammates expressed their shock at the suddenness of the tragedy.
“You really gotta cherish life,” one friend tweeted.
“I didn’t wanna believe it but RIP miles.”
Another friend tweeted, “Curtis won’t be the same without miles.”
Pictures on Kirkland’s Instagram page show him in his Curtis HS Warriors uniform.
“Out here grinding,” Kirkland wrote on a picture of him sprinting. “The season is coming.”
The school’s athletic director said that students and faculty were distraught and that grief counselors would on hand to help them deal with the tragic loss.
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña released a statement saying, “I am deeply saddened to learn of this tragic loss.
“My heart goes out to the family. We will be supporting the school community as we investigate the matter.”
In a similar incident about a year ago, a 15-year-old football player for St. Joseph-by-the-Sea HS on Staten Island collapsed at the end of a preseason practice and died hours later of heat stroke, his family claimed.
Nicholas Dellaventura’s family filed a $ 10 million lawsuit against the Archdiocese of New York, St. Joseph, the athletic director, the principal and the school’s football coaches.
The relatives claim that Dellaventura was ordered back on the field as his body temperature surged to 110 degrees.
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