‘Glad To Be Alive’: Walt Wells Is Still Here, Loving Life And Football
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Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A little over a month ago, on August 28th, it seemed like a normal morning at the headquarters of Eastern Kentucky football. The season opener was five days away. A team staffer was restocking the coach’s refrigerator. And inside his office, that coach — Walt Wells — was dropping to the floor, having a heart attack. Today, Richard Johnson from Sports Illustrated tells the story of how Wells almost died that morning in August, the staffers who rushed to the scene to keep him alive, and the fight the coach faced even after he was in the hospital.
Read Richard Johnson’s full story about Walt Wells: https://www.si.com/college/2022/09/21/eastern-kentucky-coach-walt-wells-football-survives-daily-cover
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| 0:41.2 | A little over a month ago, on August 28, it seemed like a normal morning at the headquarters |
| 0:46.7 | of Eastern Kentucky football. |
| 0:48.9 | The season opener was five days away. |
| 0:51.1 | A team staffer was restocking the coach's refrigerator with drinks. |
| 0:55.2 | And inside his office, that coach, Walt Wells, was dropping to the floor. |
| 1:01.9 | EKU says football head coach Walt Wells is hospitalized after suffering a cardiac episode |
| 1:08.1 | at work Sunday morning. |
| 1:10.1 | Wells has been the head coach at EKU since 2020. |
| 1:13.1 | Dr. Jeff Fox. |
| 1:14.4 | Today, Richard Johnson from Sports Illustrated tells us the story of how Walt Wells almost |
| 1:19.3 | died that morning in August. |
| 1:21.5 | His staffers who rushed to the scene to help keep him alive and the fight Wells faced |
| 1:26.6 | even after he was in the hospital. |
| 1:29.3 | Walt's doctor who treated him at University of Kentucky Medical Center when they eventually |
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