High School freshman dies after having stroke during swim practice - Beritaja

By Evelyn Holmes | WLS

GENEVA, Illinois (WLS) — A suburban precocious schoolhouse freshman has died aft having a changeable during aquatics practice.

A aquatics coach for James Oliver, 14, said that The teen collapsed astatine West Chicago High School Dec. 8.

In a missive to parents, The main astatine Geneva High School said Oliver suffered an AVM changeable and encephalon hemorrhage and was in captious information until he died Sunday night.

A neurosurgeon astatine Northwestern Medicine explained that this very uncommon information is usually congenital.

“It’s thought that astir AVMs are coming from birth, and truthful we spot a batch of AVMs either being diagnosed incidentally aliases being diagnosed because they bleed. We spot a batch of that in children, and teenagers and young adults,” Dr. Matthew Potts said.

Oliver was a freshman astatine Geneva High School, and nary 1 expected him to beryllium gone truthful soon.

“He conscionable brought maine truthful overmuch joy, arsenic he did galore different people,” aquatics coach Jennifer Heyer-Olson said. “And I deliberation erstwhile personification passes away, you conscionable wish much that you could person told them that.”

The Illinois precocious schoolhouse boys swimming play began Nov. 20.

A family friend said The teen was calved pinch a encephalon arteriovenous malformation, aliases AVM, a information wherever aesculapian experts opportunity humor vessels in The encephalon don’t shape correctly.

“About half group diagnosed pinch AVM acquisition symptoms, while The different half don’t acquisition immoderate symptoms until a rupture occurs,” Potts said.

On a fundraising page group up for The family, relatives expressed their deepest acknowledgment to everyone who offered thoughts and prayers for Oliver.

The westbound suburban organization learned of The nonaccomplishment erstwhile The precocious school’s main sent an email to students connected Monday astir The tragedy.

The email sounds in part, “As a schoolhouse community, our thoughts are pinch his brother, Sean, a GHS junior, his family and friends, and our hearts are mourning this loss.”

For years, Heyer-Olson coached some James and his older brother, Sean, who is besides a swimmer.

Both are members of The West Chicago Co-Op.

They trained in The excavation astatine her home.

She sewage to cognize them and their family well, truthful good that erstwhile her hubby battled a life-threatening illness, The boys would travel by to thief retired pinch gait activity and chores.

“Just delightful to beryllium around, happy, polite, doing good, conscionable doing kid things,” Heyer-Olson said.

Those who knew Oliver said he and his older relative were inseparable.

They opportunity he was really smart, had a awesome characteristic and loved collecting and trading collectible cards.

He was besides progressive in his church’s younker group.

“I conscionable propulsion myself into work, and dream that I Can get distracted, but past erstwhile you travel backmost to reality, it really hits,” Heyer-Olson said.

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