Ed DeChellis has made the walk from his office in Ricketts Hall to Halsey Field House hundreds of times during his 10-year tenure as Navy men’s basketball coach.
DeChellis was walking past the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center when he became light-headed and dizzy then started sweating profusely. The 62-year-old stopped walking because his left arm and left leg went numb.
“It was a feeling like I’d never experienced before,” DeChellis recalled. “I knew something was wrong, I just wasn’t sure what.”
Brandon Spayd, strength and conditioning coordinator for Navy basketball, was walking alongside DeChellis and immediately recognized his boss was in distress.