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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A school system report released Wednesday on the heat-related death of a football player concluded a Louisville coach and his staff did not break any high school athletic rules, and found evidence the sophomore was ill with a headache and other symptoms before the practice.
The Jefferson County Public Schools report comes after the death of 15-year-old sophomore Max Gilpin, who collapsed while running sprints known as "gassers" at the end of a preseason practice last August. He died three days later of septic shock, multiple organ failure and heat stroke.
Pleasure Ridge Park coach David Jason Stinson has been charged with reckless homicide in a rare criminal case of coach in a heat death. He has pleaded not guilty and a trial is set to begin Aug. 23.
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