"These are their boys, and then the excitement, the exhiliration of victory and then this tragedy," said former Hope College basketball coach Glenn Van Wieren, who sat behind the team’s bench. "How can you be so high and the next minutes this happens? What we're asked to deal with in life is just so difficult." In his 45 years of coaching, he's never seen before what he witnessed Thursday night — as 16-year-old Wes Leonard fell to the gym floor. Van Wieren watched the game from about 10 feet behind the Fennville bench. He coached Fennville basketball coach Ryan Klingler in the the 1990s. He watched as the excitement of a perfect season turned to tragedy. As Wes Leonard was treated on the gym floor, the rest of the team gathered with their coaches in the locker room, holding hands, crying and praying, Van Wieren said. And, the sudden death of young athletes is rare -- exceedingly so. "It is, fortunately, a rare event, but as we saw yesterday, again, it's not completely zero risk," said Dr. Ronald Grifka, chief pediatric cardiologist at DeVos Children's Hospital. The title of a study by the American Academy of Family Physicians , shows just how rare this is: "Sudden death in young athletes: Screening for the Needle in the Haystack." The study found that about 7.5 of every 1 million high school and college male athletes die suddenly, that boys were 5 times more likely to die as girls, that most of these deaths happen to football and basketball players and that most were <b>...</b>