Mountain View High School’s football team saw an unthinkable tragedy last week.
Screenshot via GoogleUPDATE Aug. 30 9:35 p.m. A woman who suffered a medical emergency during her son’s high school football last week died Wednesday, according to KTVU.
Lucinda Daniels, 44, died at a South Bay hospital five days after suffering an aneurysm running toward her son, who had suffered an injury during a football game between Mountain View High School and The King’s Academy.
“She was a really, really, good mom,” Olga Gonzalez told KTVU about her daughter. “She was a good football mom too. Her happiest place was there.”
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A Bay Area woman suffered a life-threatening aneurysm after rushing to her son’s side when he suffered a serious injury during a game in Sunnyvale on Friday.
Lucinda Daniels has “no brain activity” after a brain injury and stroke, according to a GoFundMe posted for her family. Her teenage son Dillon Daniels, a senior running back for Mountain View High, suffered a gruesome injury in the first half of the game against The King’s Academy, according to the Mercury News. His parents rushed the field, and Mountain View football coach and athletic director Tim Lugo told the Mercury News what happened next: His father briefly fainted and was revived. Lucinda Daniels then collapsed with what was later determined to be an aneurysm, and was rushed to the hospital.
Organizers of the GoFundMe, which has raised almost $75,000 as of publication, wrote that “we are losing Lucinda.” The organizers said Lucinda Daniels, who has four children, has a “deep connection with the Mountain View community” and “one of the biggest hearts you’ve ever seen.”
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Dillon Daniels is having surgery for a broken leg and dislocated ankle later this week, the fundraiser organizers said. Dillon and his brother are both on the Mountain View team and went to practice this week, Lugo told the Mercury News.
“They just want to be with their friends, and I can’t blame them for that,” he said. “I think that we, as a community, have to give them some level of normalcy. And the family wants us to play.”