{"id":33546,"date":"2026-08-30T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:00:07","slug":"college-running-back-dies-after-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33546","title":{"rendered":"College Running Back Dies After Touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad_ph\">\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>20-Year-Old College Football Player Dies After Medical Emergency During Season Opener<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">William Jewell College football player <strong>MicahJo Barnett, 20<\/strong>, tragically died after suffering a medical emergency shortly after scoring a touchdown in the team\u2019s season opener against Fort Lewis College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Barnett scored with 5:15 left in the first quarter, giving William Jewell a 7\u20130 lead. Minutes later, he collapsed and was treated by paramedics before being taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The game was suspended and later canceled. A cause of death has not been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Barnett was a junior studying business administration and a talented running back who had also earned <strong>Academic All-GLVC honors<\/strong>. He was remembered by teammates, coaches and friends as a kind and talented young man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A GoFundMe was created to help his family with funeral expenses, with more than <strong>$12,000 raised<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">William Jewell held a campus vigil to honor Barnett and support the college community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest in peace, MicahJo. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yt71rpMX1Ik?si=kDyhunMn8iGCaQkZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-Year-Old College Football Player Dies After Medical Emergency During Season Opener William Jewell College football player MicahJo Barnett, 20, tragically died after suffering a medical emergency shortly after scoring a touchdown in the team\u2019s season opener against Fort Lewis College. Barnett scored with 5:15 left in the first quarter, giving William Jewell a 7\u20130 lead&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33546\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;College Running Back Dies After Touchdown&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33548,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}