Girls' Basketball Player Dies After Outdoor Practice

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As the calendar turns to August, many high schools around the country begin practices and conditioning workouts with their sports teams wary of how the heat will impact their student-athletes. Typically, football takes center stage, but tragedy can strike any sport, as evidenced this week in Georgia, where a high school basketball player has died after an outdoor practice in extreme heat.

WSB-TV in Atlanta reports that 16-year-old Imani Bell, a girls’ basketball player at Elite Scholars Academy in Jonesboro, Ga., was running outdoors on Tuesday evening when she collapsed. Tuesday had reportedly tied a record for the hottest day on that date in history. 

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