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Popular coach Art Cantu suffered a massive cardiac attack as he coached at a scrimmage and died despite efforts to revive him by fellow coaches.
Cantu had been a coach at several campuses. This year he had been promoted to assistant defensive football coach with the Pace High School Vikings.
He reportedly died this morning while at a scrimmage between the Vikings and the PSJA team at Sams Memorial Stadium.
Officials announced that Vikings defensive line coach Cantu died this morning at a local hospital.
The Brownsville Herald reported online that shortly after the beginning of the Pace-PSJA Memorial scrimmage, Cantu collapsed on the turf field. Pace athletic trainers, Sarah Gulick and Matthew Gross, were first to respond and other coaches tried to help as Cantu sat up with what appeared to be blood dripping from his forehead.
Cantu was laid on the ground and soon after athletic trainers started performing CPR on him. Emergency medical personnel arrived just minutes later, continued CPR and were then forced to use a defibrillator to revive Cantu from a suspected heart attack.
Popular coach Art Cantu suffered a massive cardiac attack as he coached at a scrimmage and died despite efforts to revive him by fellow coaches.
Cantu had been a coach at several campuses. This year he had been promoted to assistant defensive football coach with the Pace High School Vikings.
He reportedly died this morning while at a scrimmage between the Vikings and the PSJA team at Sams Memorial Stadium.
Officials announced that Vikings defensive line coach Cantu died this morning at a local hospital.
The Brownsville Herald reported online that shortly after the beginning of the Pace-PSJA Memorial scrimmage, Cantu collapsed on the turf field. Pace athletic trainers, Sarah Gulick and Matthew Gross, were first to respond and other coaches tried to help as Cantu sat up with what appeared to be blood dripping from his forehead.
Cantu was laid on the ground and soon after athletic trainers started performing CPR on him. Emergency medical personnel arrived just minutes later, continued CPR and were then forced to use a defibrillator to revive Cantu from a suspected heart attack.
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