Table 1.

Deaths associated with sickle cell trait in NCAA athletes, 2000-2019

Demographics	Institution	Date of Incident, MM/DD/YYYY	SCT Status	Division	Sport
Age: 19 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Tennessee Tech University	08/13/2000	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed first day of conditioning test
Age: 18 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Florida State University	02/26/2001	Known	I	Football—collapsed during conditioning drills
Age: 18 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Bowling Green State University	09/15/2004	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed during practice
Age: 19 y Sex: Male Race: African American	University of Missouri	07/12/2005	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed during practice
Age: 19 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Rice University	09/24/2006	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed after conditioning
Age: 19 y Sex: Male Race: African American	University of Central Florida	03/18/2008	Known	I	Football—collapsed after conditioning
Age: 22 y Sex: Male Race: African American	North Carolina A&T University	05/28/2008	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed during conditioning
Age: 20 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Western Carolina University	07/08/2009	Unknown	I	Football—collapsed during conditioning
Age: 20 y Sex: Male Race: African American	University of Mississippi	02/19/2010	Known	I	Football—collapsed during conditioning
Division I NCAA legislation—August 2010
Age: 19 y Sex: Male Race: African American	North Carolina A&T University	08/19/2010	Unknown	I	Track & field—collapsed during tryouts
Age: 23 y Sex: Male Race: African American	Slippery Rock University	9/10/2011	Unknown	II	Basketball—collapsed during conditioning
Division II NCAA legislation—August 2012
Age: 21 y Sex: Male Race: African American	University of California, Berkeley	2/7/2014	Known	I	Football—collapsed during conditioning
Division III NCAA legislation—August 2014

NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association; SCT, sickle cell trait.

Before legislation.After legislation.