GREENSBORO, N.C., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- North Carolina A&T football player Chad Wiley died in May after a sickle cell trait led to complications from a heat stroke, an autopsy report concluded.
The results were released Friday by the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record.
The 313-pound Wiley, 22, would have been a fifth-year senior on this fall's Aggie football team.
Before he died, Wiley complained of dizziness, but was able to reach the team's training room, where he lost consciousness.
The temperature in Greensboro on May 28 was 86 degrees, the city's warmest date at that time.
The autopsy said risk factors for heat stroke include "exertion, hot environment and sickle cell trait."
The chief medical examiner's office reported that Wiley's emergency room temperature was 102.4 degrees after he was treated with ice packs and towels.
"It was a tragedy," Aggie linebacker and co-captain Brandon Long told the newspaper when news of Wiley's death was given to his teammates in May.
