Massachusetts high school wrestler dies after medical emergency at practice [Video]

Peabody Veterans Memorial High School in Massachusetts is mourning the loss of a student-athlete. 

Freddy Espinal, a 17-year-old wrestler, died last weekend after a medical emergency during a practice, The Salem News confirmed.

Espinal competed through a joint venture between Peabody Veterans Memorial and the Saugus High School wrestling team and the wrestling club RRWC.

Wayne Moda, Espinal’s wrestling coach, reflected on the late teenager’s “larger-than-life personality.”

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“I can tell you as his club and high school coach, Freddy was a larger-than-life personality on and off the mat,” Moda wrote in a social media post. 

“He was passionate about his family and wrestling, which he worked incredibly hard at after falling in love with the sport his freshman year. Wrestling aside, I thoroughly enjoyed him as a person, he genuinely made me laugh with his antics and he was committed to his teammates and friends.”

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