STILLWATER, OK – NOVEMBER 12: A general view of the arena during the game between the Utah Valley Wolverines and the Oklahoma State Cowboys November 12, 2013 at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Cowboys defeated the Wolverines 93-40. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
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Oklahoma State University announced that 21-year-old Cowboys basketball player Tyrek Coger died during a team workout on Thursday in Stillwater.

 

According to the university, Coger collapsed during a team workout on Thursday afternoon, and was rushed to Stillwater Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:23 PM.

The Stillwater News Press reports that Coger collapsed due to heat exhaustion:

A call came in to dispatch at about 5:30 p.m. for a man who had collapsed on the stairs of Boone Pickens Stadium from heat exhaustion.

Coger was from Raleigh, North Carolina, and was a junior college transfer from Cape Fear Community College.

Cowboys head coach Brad Underwood released a statement on the horrible news:

“Tyrek was excited to be at Oklahoma State and had such passion for the game and was looking forward to being an OSU Cowboy. Losing a member of the team is like losing a member of the family. But we know our loss pales in comparison to the pain his family is going through,” said Underwood, who is traveling back from a recruiting trip in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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