TAMPA, DEC. 1, 2015 – Quintin Reiss wanted to meet someone just like him. Someone who loves basketball and someone who is forced to live with a rare medical condition. Someone named Chris Perry.
In August of 2014, the Reiss family took a vacation to Montana. During the trip, their oldest son, Quintin, complained of chest pains.
“They did an echocardiogram,” said Quinton’s father, Alex, a 1991 USF alumnus and currently an assistant professor of medicine at USF’s College of Medicine. “They said there was something wrong with the myocardium, the muscle of the heart.