RIVERSIDE – In 2015, Kerry and Gina Gorrell were given the news that no parent ever wants to hear. They received word that their oldest son Austin had died in his college dorm room while sleeping. At the time, Austin, a freshman playing baseball for the University of Nevada, had been diagnosed with a heart condition called cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis came during his preseason physical administered by the school’s athletic department in 2015.The condition put Austin at a 3% chance of suffering heart failure and forced him to medically redshirt his freshman season. Before playing for the University of Nevada, Austin was a standout catcher for the J.W. North Huskies out of Riverside.“At Nevada they do an EKG (electrocardiogram) on every one of their athletes,” Kerry Gorrell,
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