Randy Russell was just getting his college football career started with the Florida Gators when he found out it was over.
The Miami Carol City three-star safety, who enrolled a semester early at UF and started spring classes this week, had “an abnormality in [his] cardiac workup” discovered in a pre-participation physical, a statement from Florida senior associate athletic director Steve McClain announced on Thursday.
Russell posted on Twitter that he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. According to American Heart Association, it is a condition that is “a common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people, including young athletes.