Matthew Mayich attended Clarkson University before transferring to ASU.
“A student-athlete who collapsed during an outdoor exercise Thursday morning remains hospitalized. The student-athlete, a member of the ASU hockey team, is not being named by the university because of privacy interests. The university is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the workout,” according to an Aug. 25 statement from ASU.
The Republic has asked the university to provide details about the workout and about ASU’s policies for guest coaches and instructors.
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The Canadian-Croatian Chamber of Commerce shared a virtual prayer service Aug. 25 which brought together supporters in Mayich’s home province of Ontario and elsewhere.
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Packard Stadium under construction.
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Packard Stadium under construction.
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Packard Stadium under construction.
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Construction of ASU football stadium as seen in 1960.
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Seen in this 1959 photo, the first iteration of Sun Devil Stadium, nestled between the Buttes was nothing more than a football field flanked by stands on the east and west. Note in this view looking south, the retaining wall that kept the Salt River from the north end of the field.
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The shape of Gammage Auditorium is shown in this late 1963 photograph when the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building was nearing completion.
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The ASU Research Farm, circa 1969, eventually gave way to the ASU Research Park.
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Students make their way around ASU campus on Sep. 4, 1973.
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Arizona State and Nebraska played in the Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 26, 1975, at Sun Devil Stadium. ASU won the game 17-14, capping an undefeated season (12-0) under head coach Frank Kush. The Sun Devils finished No. 2 in the final rankings.
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Arizona State University campus in Tempe on June 26, 2004.
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ASU students hold up signs while CNN films “Crossfire” on the Tempe campus on Oct. 12, 2004.
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ASU students cross University Drive on the first day of the fall semester at Arizona State University in Tempe on Aug. 21, 2006.
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ASU junior Will Oren of Chicago, IL, rests on a bench in the courtyard of the Social Sciences Building on the first day of the fall semester at Arizona State University in Tempe on Aug. 21, 2006.
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A student crosses ASU’s Tempe campus in 2008, in front of the entrance to Hayden Library.
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Excel Ortega, 13, gets help from Confucius Institute teacher Sophia Lee with his Chinese calligraphy. Ortega, and other seventh graders from Anthem’s Diamond Canyon Elementary School participate in a special cultural day hosted by ASU’s Confucius Institute, on the Tempe campus on Feb. 10, 2010.
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The new Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, is finished and being dedicated on Sept. 19, 2012. The $185 million building is the largest single research building at ASU, and the most expensive one to date, and houses some of the university’s signature programs including the School of Earth & Science Exploration.
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Visitors look at the Magic Planet, a digital video globe inside the new Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, on the day of its dedication on Sept. 19, 2012. The $185 million building is the largest single research building at ASU, and the most expensive one to date, and houses some of the university’s signature programs including the School of Earth & Science Exploration.
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Executive board member of Students for Liberty Carlos Alfaro talks with a smoker after he signed a petition to repeal ASU’s smoking ban outside the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.
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Korina Iribe, left, a DACA recipient, and Jesus Cisneros, an ASU graduate student and member of the Latino Graduate Student Alliance, (making pitchfork sign) lead the solidarity walk across the Tempe campus, Apr. 7, 2015, in support of in-state tuition for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrvivals) students. The solidarity walk participants were asking that the Arizona Board of Regents grant in-state tuition for the so called “dreamers”.
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Workers plant new date palm trees along Palm Walk at Arizona State University on July 26, 2016. The trees are replacing Mexican fan palms that are 100 years old and dying.
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LaDawn Haglund, an ASU faculty member, left, and Leila Asadi, an ASU student from Iran, hold up signs on campus during the protest against the visa and immigration bans recently enacted. The protest was part of a nationwide event called Academics United-No to Visa and Immigration Ban in solidarity with International Academics on Feb. 10, 2017.
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Visitors to ASU’s Tempe campus watch the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. Many parents brought their children to see the rare solar eclipse.
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Arizona State University students walk past an engineering building on the Tempe campus Sept. 11, 2017.
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Arizona State University student Alex Riordan (left) and other ASU students wait in line to vote at the polling place at ASU’s Tempe campus on Nov. 6, 2018. Riordan is a first time voter.
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Arizona State University students wait in line for up to two and half hours to vote at the polling place at ASU campus in Tempe on Election Day for the midterms on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.
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Arizona State University students wait in line to vote at the polling place at ASU’s Tempe campus on Nov. 6, 2018.
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Students walk between classes on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University on Sept. 11, 2019.
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Arizona State University fans cheer after a touchdown during a game against Colorado University at Sun Devil Stadium on Sept. 21, 2019.
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ASU basketball player Caleb Christopher designed a Black Lives Matter logo that was displayed on the scoreboard at Sun Devil Stadium for Juneteenth 2020.
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Arizona State University’s Tempe campus on Dec. 9, 2020.
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Student walking down Palm Walk at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus on Feb. 11, 2021
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Volunteers (from left) Gina Nichols, Macey Norvell and James Roche harvest dates at ASU Polytechnic campus’s Date Grove in Mesa on Oct. 23, 2021.
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Protesters at the rally supporting Kyle Rittenhouse are asking ASU to not allow Rittenhouse’s re-enrollment at the university on Dec. 1, 2021.
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From left to right, students Emily Jones, Mobina Haq and Alisia Kealbha attend the Principles of Life class in the Naturemaker at the Biomimicry Center on April 14, 2022, at ASU’s Tempe campus.
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ASU Student, Zen (declined to give last name) leads protesters, participating in a a national walkout against sexual violence on college campuses, in a chant outside the student union at ASU’s Tempe Campus on April 28, 2022.
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Amanda Tesky (left) and Megan Tesky on move-in day on the ASU Tempe Campus on Aug. 12, 2023.
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Deacon Kevin Barron of the Catholic Community of Buffalo North led the rosary.
“It’s been very faith-affirming process. Keep praying for Matthew,” he said during the service.
Barron said one of Mayich’s cousins reached out to him after learning the hockey player had experienced a cardiac event and was still in a coma.Barron said Mayich’s family is grieving and asked for privacy and for the public’s prayers.
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Tempe Fire Medical Rescue crews responded at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 20 to ASU’s Joe Selleh Track near Rural Road and Rio Salado Parkway for calls of a heat-related illness, spokesperson Pat Shannahan said. A person was treated and hospitalized, Shannahan said.
ASU athletic director Graham Rossini declined comment. Hockey coach Greg Powers and a team trainer did not respond to requests for comment.
Mayich, a sophomore defenseman from Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, near Hamilton, is in his first year in the program after transferring from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. He was a 2023 National Hockey League sixth-round draft pick (No. 170 overall) of the St. Louis Blues.
The Phoenix area has been experiencing extreme heat for days. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport recorded a temperature of 87 degrees at 7:51 a.m. and 89 degrees around 8:51 a.m. on Aug. 20, according to Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather archives, part of Iowa State University.
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