CHICAGO — Concordia University Chicago’s basketball coach has been temporarily removed after five players were hospitalized this week following a practice some allege was punishment for curfew violations.
The players were hospitalized after practices that followed two games in California, according to a letter sent Thursday from the River Forest college’s athletic director, Pete Gnan, to the team’s student-athletes and parents.
“Amid the already stressful and exhausting week, Saturday’s practice represented a particularly high-intensity, collegiate-level circuit training,” Gnan wrote. Athletic staff members were present then and at another practice Sunday, he added.
