In the summer of 2017, Jaylen Jasper was in Lake Placid, N.Y., getting ready to go to Bahrain with the U.S. junior national volleyball team. He was a freshman at Stanford, and life was sweet.
In a heartbeat, it wasn’t.
Earlier that summer, his younger brother, Jarren, had undergone a physical to be able to play sports in high school in Annapolis, Md., and was found to have an irregular heartbeat.
During what was supposed to be a routine procedure to fix the irregularity, the 14-year-old had a heart attack. His left ventricle wasn’t functioning. Jaylen — now a sophomore and one of the rising stars on the No. 8-ranked Stanford men’s volleyball team — got a call from his sister, Dallas, that Jarren “was dead for 15 minutes.
