Michigan high school basketball coach saved by bystanders, AED at game

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“If they didn’t have an AED there or the people or the training,” coach Bob Zaranek said, shaking his head, “I wouldn’t be here.”

Special to Detroit Free PressThe second half of thegirls varsity basketball game between Grosse Pointe North and Grosse Pointe South was about to begin when freshman girls coach Bob Zaranek returned from the concession stand, carrying popcorn for South scorekeeper Leo Lamberti.“I looked up and saw the team coming out,” Zaranek said. “I looked back down and my eyes got blurry. I thought: ‘Wow, that’s kind of weird.’Zaranek collapsed, hitting the court face-first. He was clinically dead.

Standing behind the scorer's table was Collin Karcher, a certified athletic trainer assigned to South. Up in the stands was Kathy Richards, the mother of South girls varsity coach Kevin Richards.“When you see someone unconscious,” Karcher said, “you have to assume the worst.”Grosse Pointe South High School girls' freshman team coach Bob Zaranek talks to players at a timeout during a game against Macomb Dakota at Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms, Tuesday, Feb.

Grosse Pointe South High School girls' freshman team coach Bob Zaranek sits next to athletic trainer Collin Karcher, left, during a game against Macomb Dakota at Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020.Medical professionals who had been in the crowd offered to help. One was Austin Price, a cardiac nurse.Price relieved Kathy Richards as Karcher and Srebernak prepared to use the AED.“I didn’t take the time to undo the buttons,” he said.

Karcher remembers Zaranek also saying that he wanted to get some rest because they had practice at 7 a.m. This was the first time Karcher found himself in this situation, but you never would have known it by the way he reacted.

 

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