Central Florida Player dies after Drills

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ORLANDO, Fla. - A University of Central Florida football player has died. Ereck Plancher of Naples, a freshman and redshirt wide receiver for the UCF Knights, died Tuesday around noon.

After conditioning drills, Plancher passed out.

An ambulance was called and he was taken to Florida Hospital on Lake Underhill Road.

UCF Coach O'Leary held a meeting following the incident to tell Plancher's teammates what happened and his family was informed.

The cause of death will be determined with an autopsy.

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Central Florida Player Dies After Drills

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Central Florida redshirt freshman wide receiver died Tuesday after offseason conditioning drills on campus.

Ereck Plancher, of Naples, was pronounced dead shortly before noon Tuesday at a hospital, said Joe Hornstein, UCF's associate athletics director for marketing and communications. He said Plancher took a knee, became unresponsive and was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

"We're still gathering some of that information at this point," Hornstein said.

UCF's spring practices weren't scheduled to start until Wednesday, but Hornstein said 82 players were there for coach-led conditioning. All practices are now canceled until further notice, Hornstein said.

Plancher, 5-foot-10 and 184 pounds, was a two-time letterman at Lely High School. He majored in business at UCF and was a high school National Honor Society member.

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