Northern Iowa TE Parker Sutherland dies two days after exercise

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa. — Northern Iowa soccer participant Parker Sutherland has died two days after collapsing throughout an offseason exercise.

Faculty officers introduced Saturday that the 18-year-old tight finish from Iowa Metropolis, Iowa, had died that morning. Northern Iowa coach Todd Stepsis mentioned Monday that 6-foot-6 Sutherland had collapsed on Thursday.

“We have been figuring out within the morning, we obtained proper by way of our warm-up and in a routine, regular Thursday, and he collapsed,” Stepsis mentioned.

Sutherland appeared in 4 video games as a freshman final fall. He had earned second-team all-state honors his senior yr at Iowa Metropolis Excessive Faculty, the place he additionally performed basketball.

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He’s survived by his dad and mom, Adam and Jill Sutherland, in addition to a sister, Georgia.

“He is considered one of one,” Stepsis mentioned. “Simply a tremendous particular person, a tremendous household. It is the kind of man you wish to construct a crew with. If I might have 110 Parkers, I’d. We’re not going to have the ability to him, however whoever he is sort of a particular person, he at all times had a smile on his face. He at all times made folks be ok with themselves. So for us, it is not about changing him however discovering one thing further inside that may assist fill that hole and shut that void with him being gone.

“Our crew, they perceive that and so they acknowledge that, and so they wish to play for Parker. They wish to stay like Parker. They wish to affect like he did.”