Two days after his athletic career took a major step from the amateur ranks to professional prestige, Zach Collier ran three miles. He ran, and he ran pain free. This might not come as shocking news to anyone. Zach Collier is the tender age of 17, and as the 34th overall pick in Major League Baseball's First-Year Player draft Thursday, one would expect the outfielder from Southern California to run like the wind.
However, Collier, drafted by the Phillies Thursday, is two years removed from heart surgery. In the early summer, 2006, Collier, then a sophomore at Chino Hills High, unexpectedly fell to the ground after baseball practice. "He collapsed right in front of me, at my feet," Chino Hills baseball coach Kyle Billingsley recalled. "He went into a seizure."
Read the story: DelcoTimes.com | Posted 6/13/2008
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