High school football player in Kansas is 10th to die this season

Schemm, 17, collapsed during a playoff game Tuesday night against Otis-Bison.

“The best way to honor him is just to go play the way he would”, that’s what Ted Brown, head football coach at Ingalls High School says he told his players, after learning about Luke Schemm’s passing. She later confirmed that life support was withdrawn Wednesday afternoon and the teen was declared dead.

Schemm suffered a traumatic brain injury, “causing it to swell and shut off blood flow to the brain”, his father wrote in a Facebook post.

“Luke, our handsome gift from God, is no longer with us”, Schemm said. He was then taken by an ambulance to a local hospital before being flown to Denver, Colorado – about a 220-mile flight. “Before they even left the sideline, he just collapsed”, McVay said.

Luke Schenn, who ran track and played basketball at the school and participated in music and theater, planned to attend Kansas State University next year. The center said seven of those deaths were directly related to a football trauma and four were indirectly related, meaning other health issues contributed to the death.

“He lived life with a passion, and that’s what we want to see the team do”, he said.

After the news of his death, Wallace County Athletics’ Twitter account tweeted out, “We’ll miss you, Luke”, with the picture of Schemm in his football uniform.

Luke Schemm’s on-field death was the 11th fatality related to high-school football since July, the affiliate reported, citing figures from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.