Cartier Woods (left)
A Northwestern High School student is in critical condition after going into cardiac arrest Tuesday night during a basketball game.
Cartier Wood, 18, went into cardiac arrest during the game, according to an email sent by the school district’s superintendent.
“It is with a heavy heart that I send you this late-night e-mail. Earlier this evening, Cartier Woods, a third-grader at Northwestern, went into cardiac arrest while playing his basketball game at Northwestern,” said Nikolai P. Vitti, superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Vitti said CPR was administered to revive Woods and he was rushed to a nearby hospital. The teenager is still fighting for his life and is on ventilators.
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“He received CPR and was rushed to Henry Ford Hospital. As of this email, he is on life support and the next 24 hours are critical to his survival. With the permission of Cartier Woods’ legal guardian, his aunt, I am sending you this email asking for your prayers, thoughts and/or well wishes for his recovery. I will keep everyone updated on Cartier’s health and I pray to bring you good news!” the fast continued.
Dwanda Woods, his aunt and legal guardian, told ABC Detroit that Cartier first started playing sports at age 10.
“Nobody can stop him. He simply likes to play football, basketball. It’s his number one goal of what he’s wanted to do his whole life,” said Dwanda Woods.
According to Woods, her nephew had no known heart conditions. Woods added that CPR was performed on him 40-60 minutes after he collapsed on the field.
“He’s been with me since he was a baby, and I just don’t sleep. “I haven’t eaten or drunk anything since yesterday and I feel sick right now,” said Dwanda Woods. “We’re all just praying and hoping he wakes up.”
The Woods family said they are in the process of starting a fundraising campaign to help pay his medical bills.
More from the Detroit Free Press:
Three minutes into Detroit Douglass’ boys basketball game at Detroit Northwestern on Tuesday, Douglas assistant coach Roland Eason noticed Northwestern senior Cartier Woods approaching head coach George Tyson.
“Coach, I’m dizzy,” Woods said, according to Eason. “I have to go out.”
Douglass head coach Pierre Brooks, who has coached with Tyson for 18 years, was watching the action on the field until he heard a loud noise.
Woods went into cardiac arrest and lay motionless on the court.
“I heard a big bang and I thought it might be a fight or something,” Brooks said. “I looked and it was Cartier who was out and coach Tyson sprung into action.
Brooks estimated that EMS personnel arrived between five and 10 minutes after the incident and transported the young man to nearby Henry Ford Hospital.
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