Basketball Player Makes Save of a Lifetime After Performing CPR on Collapsed Referee
Myles Copeland plays minor league basketball with the Toledo Glass City basketball team. The 25-year-old is a firefighter by day, but loves to spend time on the court, too. One of the games was scheduled for June 11…
Myles Copeland plays minor league Basketball with the Toledo Glass City Basketball team. The 25-year-old is a firefighter by day, but loves to spend time on the court, too.
One of the games was scheduled for June 11 where the team was set to square off against the Jamestown Jackals.
During the game, 61-year-old John Sculli, the referee, suddenly collapsed. Though no one knew it for sure at the time, he was suffering from a heart attack.
Copeland quickly went over to the fallen referee and went into what he called “firefighter mode,” according to Fox News.
Sculli wasn’t breathing, and he had no pulse. His wife, a nurse, was sure he was dead — she just hoped Copeland could bring him back.
For ten minutes Copeland performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took over. By the time they were there and got him onto a stretcher, the referee was conscious and joking that he could handle going back out and finishing the game.