Valley Christian athlete dies in Spokane hospital after injury

Players from both teams join referees in a prayer circle led by a Valley Christian coach for Andrew Swank in the end zone at Washtucna.

Football players from Valley Christian and LaCrosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus gathered for a prayer circle in the end zone at Washtucna Friday night while Andrew F. Swank, 17, a junior on the Valley Christain Panthers’ football team was loaded into an ambulance after he collapsed along the visitors’ sideline of the football field.

After he was blocked and fell, Swank, who was known as Drew, went to the Valley Christian side of the field and collapsed. Coaches, team m...