Students hold vigils, pray for recovery

(WOFL FOX 35) - Students at two Central Florida High Schools returned with heavy hearts Wednesday.

At Wekiva High in Apopka a large group held a prayer vigil before the school day began. While at Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange students worried about the fate of one of their own.

Tuesday afternoon was filled with tragedy for the families of the two students who play football. The teens go to different schools in completely different areas, but they both collapsed in practice.

And for 15-year-old, Oliver Louis the situation turned tragic.

Louis was on the field at Wekiva practicing just after 4:00 p.m.when he collapsed.

Lifesaving efforts were performed in attempt to revive the teen before Orange County Fire and Rescue made it to the scene. Once they arrived, they rushed the student to Florida Hospital Apopka, but by that time it was too late.

The teen didn’t respond to additional life saving attempts and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Samuel and Daniel Michaud are friends of the 15 year old from church. They showed up to the hospital in disbelief because they just talked with their friend. "I asked him is he playing football and he said yes and I said that's good man keep it up, keep it up," said Samuel.

The boy’s family pastor said Louis had a bright future ahead of him.

"I always told him Oliver you are going to be the next pastor, so you need to be good in school, ’said Pierre Michaud. ’After high school I want you to go to college and after collage, I’m going to put you in a seminary school. You are going to be the next youth pastor.’

An autopsy will be done to determine the student’s exact cause of death.

The second incident Tuesday involved a different high school football player is very similar. Officials said the football player, Jordon Petersen a senior, was practicing at Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange when he collapsed as well.

They say Petersen took a direct hit in the chest from the helmet of another player. an off duty police officer preformed CPR while the assistant athletic director used a portable defibrillator. Paramedics arrived and found him unresponsive but with a pulse.

Petersen was listed in critical condition at Halifax Medical Center in a medically induced coma Wednesday morning.