MARQUETTE, MI-- The parents of a Northern Michigan University football player who died last month wants to make sure no one else goes through what they have.
Anthony Herbert, 20, of Lapeer had returned to his dorm room after practice and breakfast on January 17 when he suddenly became unresponsive. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
In a story published Monday MLive.com says autopsy reports indicate Herbert’s heart was twice as large as an average healthy adult heart. Experts say he died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—or complications from an enlarged heart.
No one had any idea.
Herbert’s parents have donated Anthony’s heart to the Mayo Clinic for research on the condition and are promoting heart screenings for students. They’re working with local hospitals to provide or promote free heart screening programs.
Lori Herbert says, “In most cases, the first symptom is the last.”
