{"id":35432,"date":"2025-11-26T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35432"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:09:14","slug":"junior-college-basketball-player-in-oklahoma-dies-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35432","title":{"rendered":"Junior college basketball player in Oklahoma dies from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Nov 26, 2025, 12:26 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WARNER, Okla. &#8212; Ethan Dietz, a sophomore basketball player at Connors State College in Oklahoma, died Tuesday from an injury suffered during a game Saturday, school officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Dietz, a 6-foot-8 forward from Vilonia, Arkansas, was injured during the second half of the game in Texas, the school said in a statement posted to its Facebook page. A spokesperson for the junior college, Shannon Rigsby, said that initial reports indicate Dietz suffered some kind of head injury but that she didn&#8217;t have any more information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to value hard work and being part of a team,&#8221; according to the statement from the school. &#8220;While the team and the Cowboy community are processing our own grief, our hearts go out to his family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Messages seeking comment were left Wednesday with the college&#8217;s athletic director and men&#8217;s basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the college&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball games were canceled following Dietz&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Dietz was averaging 11 points through eight games this season.<\/p>\n<p>A vigil in his honor is scheduled for next Monday at the college&#8217;s campus in Warner, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 26, 2025, 12:26 PM ET WARNER, Okla. &#8212; Ethan Dietz, a sophomore basketball player at Connors State College in Oklahoma, died Tuesday from an injury suffered during a game Saturday, school officials said. Dietz, a 6-foot-8 forward from Vilonia, Arkansas, was injured during the second half of the game in Texas, the school said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1188,535,2527,796,3616,192,3461],"class_list":{"0":"post-35432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-dies","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-junior","13":"tag-oklahoma","14":"tag-player"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}