Autopsy shows A&T player died of heat stroke
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T football player Chad Wiley died from complications of a heat stroke, a condition he was at greater risk for because of his sickle cell trait, according to an autopsy report released today.
Wiley, 22, who would have been a fifth-year senior on the Aggies team this fall, died May 28, about 18 hours after a supervised, optional offseason conditioning session concluded on the school's campus.
According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Wiley's emergency room temperature was 102.4 - after he had been treated with ice packs and towels. The autopsy says his risk factors for heat stroke include "exertion, hot environment and sickle cell trait."
Wiley, who weighed 313 pounds when he died, had complained of dizziness but had made his way into the training room at the Bryan Fitness and Wellness Center, where he lost consciousness. The high temperature on the day he died, 86 degrees, was the warmest of the year up to that point. At 11 a.m., the temperature was 77 and the relative humidity stood at 58 percent.
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