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Timeyin Amatosero-Keke, a 24-year-old college basketball player, has passed away. Amatosero-Keke played for Bluefield State College and died after he collapsed following a pick-up basketball game earlier this year.
The Associated Press had the details.
Bluefield State College Athletic Director John Lewis tells news outlets that 24-year-old Timeyin Amatosero-Keke (tih-MAYN’ ah-mah-toe-SEHR’-oh-KE’-KE’) died Monday night. Lewis says an athletic trainer told him Amatosero-Keke, of Lagos, Nigeria, was packing up to leave a pickup game session at a high school when he collapsed.
Lewis says Amatosero-Keke was taken to a hospital and died. His cause of death is unclear.
Amatosero-Keke was majoring in civil engineering and technology.