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Second graders pen heartfelt letters to hospitalized Florida basketball star

It’s a Monday morning staple in Kaitlyn Day’s class.

The second graders at the Gainesville elementary school where Day teaches know that she’s a Florida alum and diehard Gators fan, so they always ask her about the previous weekend’s football game.

The conversation veered in an unexpected direction this week when a student brought up the Florida basketball player who collapsed without warning during a game on Saturday afternoon. The rest of Day’s class soon learned that Keyontae Johnson had been rushed to the nearest hospital and that his prognosis at that time was uncertain.