Rutgers Freshman Dies After Collapsing During Recreational Basketball Game

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.