Zoneboy
08-14-2010, 11:23 PM
Link (http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/08/14/jovante-woods-ickey-woods-son-dies-from-asthma-attack/)
Elbert Jovante Woods, the son of former Bengals star Ickey Woods, died Saturday night, three days after collapsing at his home from an asthma attack. He was 16.
Jovante, a student at Princeton High School, was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday after someone reportedly called 911 on his behalf. He was treated at the intensive care unit of the hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator. WKRC-TV in Cincinnati reported that he showed no signs of brain activity.
Jovante was about to begin his junior year at Princeton on Monday and play in his third season of varsity football at cornerback. He practiced with the varsity team earlier in the day Wednesday and left the school around 10:30 a.m., school spokesman Tom O'Neill told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"According to his family, Jovante began to feel tightness in his chest before he collapsed," O'Neill told the Enquirer in a statement. Jovante had reportedly struggled with asthma attacks throughout his life.
Jovante, the second-youngest of Ickey Woods' six children, had excelled in the classroom with a 3.8 GPA and was described by O'Neill as "likable and well-respected as a kid can be."
Ickey Woods is currently the head coach of a women's full-contact football team, the Cincinnati Sizzle, and he also runs the Ickey Woods Youth Foundation.
Elbert Jovante Woods, the son of former Bengals star Ickey Woods, died Saturday night, three days after collapsing at his home from an asthma attack. He was 16.
Jovante, a student at Princeton High School, was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday after someone reportedly called 911 on his behalf. He was treated at the intensive care unit of the hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator. WKRC-TV in Cincinnati reported that he showed no signs of brain activity.
Jovante was about to begin his junior year at Princeton on Monday and play in his third season of varsity football at cornerback. He practiced with the varsity team earlier in the day Wednesday and left the school around 10:30 a.m., school spokesman Tom O'Neill told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"According to his family, Jovante began to feel tightness in his chest before he collapsed," O'Neill told the Enquirer in a statement. Jovante had reportedly struggled with asthma attacks throughout his life.
Jovante, the second-youngest of Ickey Woods' six children, had excelled in the classroom with a 3.8 GPA and was described by O'Neill as "likable and well-respected as a kid can be."
Ickey Woods is currently the head coach of a women's full-contact football team, the Cincinnati Sizzle, and he also runs the Ickey Woods Youth Foundation.