{"id":213499,"date":"2026-03-10T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213499\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:04:12","slug":"fresno-high-school-student-who-died-after-collapsing-during-pe-class-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213499\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno High School Student Who Died After Collapsing During PE Class Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old Fresno High School student died after collapsing while playing basketball during a physical education class on Monday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner\u2019s Office identified the teen on Tuesday as Daniel Padilla Jr. of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Unified School District confirmed the death, stating that the student passed away at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with the student\u2019s family, friends, and school community during this incredibly difficult time,\u201d the district said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>School officials added that they do not have any additional information to share at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department said that they received a call Monday at 12:23 p.m. regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Unified told GV Wire that the student was immediately attended to after the medical emergency occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old Fresno High School student died after collapsing while playing basketball during a physical education class on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-213499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}