15-Year-Old Football Player Dies After Collapsing During High School Gym Class

Levi Curry, who was a freshman and football player at Eagle River High School in Alaska, died at 15 years old.

Jayce Bertrand of KTUU Alaska noted Curry collapsed while playing football in gym class.

Curry's parents, Mary and James, said he was born with a heart condition that was "basically healed" by a previous surgery, per Bertrand.

Curry was an offensive lineman at the school.

"I think 17 years now, and I've never had a ninth-grader start for varsity, especially on the offensive line," football coach Jonathan Wetzel said, per Bertrand.

"... There was plenty of times that I could be having a bad day at work, and I could get to the ball field, and you know see him coming up and his smile would just kind of wash that bad day away."

Curry's funeral happened Wednesday, and approximately 500 people attended.