It was announced, by the University of Minnesota Duluth, that football senior defensive lineman Reed Ryan died a week after suffering a cardiac arrest during a team weights session..
Ryan died at Essentia Health in Duluth on Tuesday. He was 22 years old. His family says he died of a genetic heart condition that no one knew about until he went into cardiac arrest one week earlier following a football team workout in the weight room.
According to his obituary, his death was the result of “an undetected genetic heart condition”.
Following the rapid response of UMD athletic training staff, who used CPR to regain Ryan’s pulse, he was transferred to the ICU at St Mary’s Duluth.
