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PostSubject: Prep basketball player dies right after hitting game winner   Prep basketball player dies right after hitting game winner EmptyFri Mar 04, 2011 12:23 pm

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Prep-star-hits-game-winning-shot-for-perfect-sea?urn=highschool-329684
According to the Associated Press, Leonard, who you can see making the game-winning shot above, was celebrating his game-winning layup with the rest of his teammates when he collapsed to the ground. Paramedics tried to perform CPR on the star both at the site and in the ambulance, but he was pronounced dead upon reaching nearby Holland Hospital.

"Obviously, in the midst of celebration, I think shocking is exactly the word," Fennville Superintendent Dirk Weeldreyer told The Holland Sentinel about Leonard's collapse.

Making matters even more disorienting for Fennville fans were the events that transpired just before Leonard's death. The junior -- who was also the quarterback of the school's football team this fall -- not only hit the winning shot in the team's final regular season game, but by doing so he also ensured that the Blackhawks would finish with a perfect, 20-0 record.
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