ORLANDO -- Emotions are still raw for the UCF football team after redshirt freshman receiver Ereck Plancher died earlier this week after off-season conditioning drills.
The team held a private memorial Thursday.
News 13's David Baumann talked to some of his teammates who are upset by a lack of answers.
Plancher's family is suffering heartbreak.
How could this happen? How can a seemingly, healthy, athletic young man succumb to a sudden death?
These are just some of the questions his family, teammates, and the Central Florida community are asking.
"I think a lot of things are vague to what happened and took place and caused it, but I think it's difficult just realizing the fact Ereck is gone now, but I think more will come out with what happened and what went on," said Kyle Israel, a quarterback for UCF.
Often players overexert themselves to the point of physical exhaustion, dehydration, nausea, and vomiting. These symptoms, to any athlete, are not all that unusual. Often players will sit out a few minutes, regroup, then return to the field.
"As a player you don't really think about it, but you understand it comes with the game, with contact and heat illness and strenous activity and that's what you risk when you play football, and yesterday was one of the days it went the wrong way," Israel said.
After the original autopsy revealed nothing too definitive, family, friends and teammates are left with unanswered questions and it may take weeks to determine the the actual cause of Plancher's death.
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