The 20-year-old college wrestler died of heatstroke after practice after his coach turned down a desperate request for water because of his ‘poor performance’.
- A 20-year-old Grant Brace wrestler from Cumberland University died during a 2020 practice, in which the coach forced students to sprint repeatedly.
- During practice, the coaches reportedly told the athletes to throw their water bottles over the fence and not touch them.
- On hot summer days, Brace began to fall behind his teammates, and asked the coaches for water – a request he declined because of his ‘poor performance’.
- A police report says that as much as Brees begged, his coaches refused to help
During a special intense school practice, a college wrestler died of heat stroke after the 20-year-old repeatedly pleaded for water as a disciplinary measure, which was dismissed by coaches, a police report revealed. walked. He’s gone.
Cumberland University wrestler, Second Grant Brace, died during a practice in August 2020 Kentucky The school that had seen the coaches forced the students to run over and over again on a 200-foot ‘punishment hill’.
During practice, the coaches reportedly told the athletes to ‘throw their water bottles over the fence and not touch them.’
Eventually, on a hot summer day, Brace began to fall behind his teammates, begging the coaching staff for water – a request police say they refused because of the student’s ‘poor performance’.
Two hours after practice, the brace, found on the ground near the school by students and staff, fell by grabbing the grass near a pool of its own vomit.
He died of extreme heatstroke, police said – a particularly preventable condition that doesn’t happen without warning signs.
Cumberland University sophomore Grant Brace died in August 2020 during a practice at a Kentucky school in which instructors forced students to run repeatedly on the 200-foot ‘Punishment Hill’, from a recently released police report It shows
‘Guys, I want water. Give me some water,’ Trees reportedly urged her teammates during an outdoor stretch of practice on August 31 – the first day of wrestling conditioning for the students.
Witnesses who spoke to the department said Brace’s requests would eventually become frantic, wrote cops from the Williamsburg Police Department – but were still denied, even when he began speaking fuzzy and convulsively. They said.
Brace – whose teammates said he had dreams of being champion – also told staff he could neither see nor stand before his death, which had been a mystery for the past two years. immersed in
Brace’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in August against the school as well as school officials and those associated with the wrestling program.
The cause of death was not given in the trial, which is ongoing.
However, for the past seven months, local outlet WKRC-TV has searched the city’s records to find out why Grant fell – and opened.
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