A suburban high school football player was out for a training run with teammates this summer when he went into cardiac arrest, but quick action helped save his life.

Nicholas Hunt, a junior at Ridgewood High School in Norridge, was on a training run on the Des Plaines River Trail when he suddenly collapsed.

“My vision started to go blurry, and that’s all I remember,” he said. “I just remember waking up in the ambulance and freaking out.”

Hunt was with two of his teammates and a friend when the emergency unfolded.

“I just saw him collapse,” RJ DeGuzman said. “I was like, in a state of shock.”

Fortunately for Nicholas, his three friends, including DeGuzman, Frank Horak and Jerome Adaya, had all been trained in CPR during health class the previous school year, and they jumped into action

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