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A school soccer participant died Saturday after collapsing throughout a exercise earlier within the week.
Tight finish Parker Sutherland of the College of Northern Iowa was simply 18 years previous when he was working via a “regular” routine along with his teammates and all of the sudden collapsed.
“I am heartbroken …” Northern Iowa head coach Todd Stepsis stated in an announcement. “Parker embodied all the pieces we search for in a UNI Soccer Panther. His expertise and potential excited us every day, however it failed to check to the kind of particular person and teammate he was. His character, humility, toughness and real love of others are what champions are manufactured from. Whereas I am saddened that our time collectively was quick, we are going to have fun the intense gentle that he dropped at our soccer group for the remainder of our lives.”
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Northern Iowa tight Parker Sutherland died in February 2025. (IMAGN/College of Northern Iowa)
“He embraced the chance to play Panther soccer and signify the College via sport,” UNI Director of Athletics Megan Franklin added. “We’re devastated — simply devastated. The blessing is that we’ve got a Panther household who will maintain the Sutherland household, our soccer group, and our athletics workers shut as we grieve.”
Stepsis stated the group was understanding Thursday morning once they bought “via our warm-up and in a routine, regular Thursday, and he collapsed.”
“He’s considered one of one,” Stepsis stated. “Simply an incredible particular person, an incredible household. It’s the kind of man you wish to construct a group with. If I might have 110 Parkers, I might. We’re not going to have the ability to substitute him, however who he’s as an individual, he at all times had a smile on his face. He at all times made folks be ok with themselves. So for us, it’s not about changing him however discovering one thing additional inside that may assist fill that hole and shut that void with him being gone.”
Iowa Metropolis Excessive’s Parker Sutherland (88) celebrates a primary down towards Iowa Metropolis Liberty Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 at Iowa Metropolis Excessive in Iowa Metropolis, Iowa. (Julia Hansen/Iowa Metropolis Press-Citizen/USA Right now Community)
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“Our group, they perceive that they usually acknowledge that, they usually wish to play for Parker. They wish to reside like Parker. They wish to impression like he did.”
Sutherland, from Iowa Metropolis, performed in 4 video games in his freshman season after being a three-sport varsity athlete in highschool.
His bio on Northern Iowa’s athletics web page says he loved “video video games, watching motion pictures, pickleball and Legos.”
A memorial was held for Sutherland on Monday outdoors the UNI Dome, with KWWL saying “lots of” have been in attendance.
Sutherland was a three-sport athlete in highschool earlier than attending UNI. (College of Northern Iowa)
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“I imply that poor child, he did not even understand how good wanting he was. He by no means did his hair. He wore black on black. It was simply, ‘Hey, return downstairs and alter.’ ‘OK’ ‘Why?’ It did not part him. He did not care. He did not care the littlest of something. He did not care about what he wore, what he purchased,” his father, Adam, stated on the memorial. “All he wished to do was eat and sleep, and hang around with the fellas. That is it.
“And construct Legos. Truthfully.”
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