Alec KornetFamily photo
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio — A Brush High School hockey player had no diagnosed medical conditions that would explain his unexpected death Tuesday evening, family members said.
Alec Kornet, 17, experienced trouble breathing and collapsed during hockey practice at the Cleveland Heights Recreation Pavilion on Monticello Boulevard. The junior honor student died after paramedics took him to Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
The medical examiner’s office has not determined how he died.
Alec was on the bench drinking water before he collapsed, his father Scott Kornet said Wednesday outside the family’s home in South Euclid.
Alec had also not suffered any injuries or taken any serious hits during recent hockey games or practices, his father added.
“He didn’t seem disoriented or anything,” he said. “Everything seemed normal.”
Scott Kornet and the hockey team’s coach performed CPR before paramedics took the boy to the hospital.
About a dozen cars lined the street Wednesday afternoon outside the Kornet family home. His father said that numerous friends expressed their support of the family as they grieve their unexpected loss.
“We’re doing okay,” Scott Kornet said. “We’re trying to get through this.”
Alec was the second of three boys, with a 19-year-old brother and a 15-year-old brother, Scott Kornet said.
Alec was also a member of Brush High School’s band and its soccer, hockey and baseball teams, the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District said in a statement.
“Alec was an incredibly well-liked and well-respected student by his fellow classmates,” school officials said in the statement. “The [South Euclid-Lyndhurst] Schools are deeply saddened by his death, and extend our deepest sympathy to the Kornet family.”
School district officials declined to offer additional comment Wednesday afternoon.
Grief counselors were available Wednesday to students and staff at Brush High School.
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