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ASU hockey player’s family seeks coach’s phone after workout left player on life support
The family of an Arizona State hockey player is seeking to learn whether the team’s head coach replaced his phone after a near-fatal workout. A lawyer’s Oct. 3 letter to ASU says the device could hold material the university was required to preserve.
The family of an Arizona State University hockey player left on life support after a near-fatal workout is demanding to know what happened to the head coach’s cell phone, which the family says may have been replaced.
In an Oct. 3 letter to ASU, the family’s lawyer said the phone could contain videos, photographs, text messages and communications among coaching staff. The lawyer argued that the university was legally obligated to preserve such material.
The family is seeking the phone’s whereabouts because it could contain information about the workout and the events surrounding the player’s medical emergency. The available details do not establish whether the coach replaced the device or what information, if any, it contained.