UPDATE: Rutgers Freshman Dies After Collapsing During Basketball Game On Campus

An East Brunswick teen, who was a freshman at Rutgers University, died Sunday after collapsing during a recreational basketball game.

Patrick Awosogba, 18, collapsed around 2 p.m. while playing a game at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center, according to EJ Miranda, a University spokesman.

Lifeguards at the recreation center immediately started CPR; Rutgers police and EMTs arrived a few minutes later.

Those emergency workers continued performing CPR and also used an electronic defibrillation device, according to Miranda.

Awosogba died around 3:15 p.m. at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

The teen was a 2014 East Brunswick High School graduate, and had been a player on the school’s varsity baseball team.

He was a student at Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. Counselors are being made available to students, said Miranda.

Friends paid tribute on social media.

One Instagram member, tommygrande_, wrote:

“19 hours ago13 years.... From the first day I moved into my first house.. Patrick Banji Junior Awosogba was my first true best friend. He greeted me the moment my parents cars back into the driveway, he showed me all around his neighborhood and then introduced me to@a_bell05.. The three of us played baseball from ages 8-15 years old... And we all stayed friends all throughout high school.. BJ was the most kind hearted.”

His sister, a doctor, said the freshman may have had an undiagnosed heart condition. “We don’t know yet what happened,” Dr. Temipope Awosogba, a resident physician in Boston, said on nj.com. “But based on what one of his friends told us, it seems to have been a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.”

Photo: @tommygrande_ Awosogba, third from left in the top right photo, far left in bottom right, standing or kneeling in others.

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