Terrible news from Orlando this afternoon as UCF is reporting that redshirt freshman wide receiver
Ereck Plancher died shortly after conditioning drills this afternoon.
[Plancher] was pronounced dead shortly before noon Tuesday at a hospital, said Joe Hornstein, UCF's associate athletics director for marketing and communications. He said Plancher took a knee, became unresponsive and was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
"We're still gathering some of that information at this point," Hornstein said.
Here's hoping that for both Plancher's family and UCF, the cause of his death can be determined and the parties can move forward. These events sadly happen on occasion in the sporting fields across America. Sometimes they're due to negligence, other times harmful supplements, and other times just a dangerous and undiagnosed condition.
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