Ashari Hughes Passes Away, A Desert Oasis High School Student

A 16-year-old died after collapsing on the field of her flag football game in Nevada, news outlets reported.

Ashari Hughes was playing a game of flag football for Desert Oasis High School on Thursday, Jan. 5, when she started experiencing chest pain, her family told FOX 5. She took a break on the sidelines and collapsed.

The Hughes family told FOX 5 that she had ongoing heart problems but was cleared by her cardiologist to play sports.

McClatchy News reached out to Desert Oasis High School on Jan. 6 and is awaiting a response.

The school’s principal, Ian Salzman, said in a statement that staff immediately stepped in to help the student until paramedics arrived but that she didn’t survive, according to KVVU.

“It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that the student passed away,” Salzman said in an email to parents, according to KTVN. “The school and the entire district mourn the loss of this young life.”

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