Hank Gathers

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A 23-year-old college senior and forward on the Loyola Marymount basketball team, who, in March 1990, collapsed while playing and died in ventricular fibrillation

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An autopsy determined Agu died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the same condition that killed basketball stars Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis.

Stanford stands in way of UCLA's good feelings

An abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, known as idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, was one of the underlying causes of the 1990 death of 23-year-old Loyola Marymount basketball star Hank Gathers, Dr.

Game-related fatalities rare

Heart of a Lion: The Life, Death and Legacy of Hank Gathers is the biography of a passionate and dedicated African-American athlete who loved his chosen sport of basketball.

The Biography Shelf

Although the issue was spotlighted in high-profile deaths, such as that of Reggie Lewis, the 27-year-old captain of the Boston Celtics who collapsed in 1993 during practice, and Loyola Marymount University basketball player Hank Gathers, 23, who dropped on the court during a tournament game against the University of Portland, the U.S.

One-third of college athletes show abnormalities on a test of the heart's electrical activity, a new study shows

* By the way, the on-the-court deaths of two famous basketball stars, Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis, were caused by relatively rare heart defects, not exercise per se.

Lessons for the heart

The doctor told me about the basketball star Hank Gathers. He died of the same thing."

A lucky survivor

A similar reaction occurred in March when Hank Gathers, the Loyola Marymount basketball star, collapsed and died during a championship game.