NCAA Part of $1.2M Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit

The NCAA and other defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit will pay $1.2 million in a settlement with the parents of a college football player who died in 2011 from a head injury suffered in practice.

Derek Sheely, a senior fullback at Division III Frostburg (Md.) State, died in August 2011. His parents, Ken and Kristen Sheely, alleged in their $1.6 million lawsuit filed in 2013 that their son was a victim of “second-impact syndrome” — a brain injury that occurs before a previous concussion has healed.

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