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GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T has assigned a group of university officials to review the circumstances surrounding the death of Jospin Milandu.

Milandu died Thursday after collapsing during tryouts for the track and field team.

"The team is preparing a report and we will release everything at once," said Nicole Pride, associate vice chancellor for university relations.

Meanwhile, Milandu's father, Fernand, said he is occupied with planning the funeral and did not want to discuss details of his son's death Tuesday.

"I'm just concentrating on burying my son," he said by phone.

Visitation will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Community United Church of Christ in Raleigh, according to the Hood Funeral Home in Clayton. The funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Forest Hills Baptist Church, also in Raleigh.

Milandu, 20, of Knightdale, was in a supervised voluntary open tryout. After the collapse, Milandu was pronounced dead at Moses Cone Hospital, where doctors said he died from complications of an elevated heart rate.

Pride said the A&T investigative group would report to Chancellor Harold Martin and would include attorneys.

"The worst thing we could do is piecemeal this," Pride said, adding that staff members there are compiling documents on related policies.

The school has two vacancies for trainers, but those did not affect the track team, she said.

"We currently have a trainer on the staff," Pride said, "and the process will tell us where he was at the time."

The results of the review, Pride said, would be made public.

Contact Gerald Witt at 373-7008 or gerald.witt@news-record.com