KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Blue Valley High School junior is headed back to class Wednesday and thankful to be alive. Just two weeks ago he collapsed at baseball practice from cardiac arrest.

Seventeen-year-old Davis Dwight was at Mac N Seitz for hitting practice with Coach Nikolaus Crouch.

“It’s an incident that keeps me up at night at times. It’s an incident that fills my mind and my heart,” Crouch said. “I was having a typical conversation with a 17-year-old kid about a situation that happened earlier with him – he broke his wood bat — and then two minutes into the conversation he just passed out.”

Crouch yelled for help and called 911. Coach and former Royals catcher Mike Macfarlane came running. They said Dwight was not breathing.

“I started compressions right away. Still couldn’t feel a pulse. I was scared, praying, hollering — get help,” Macfarlane said. “Things got real serious when he started turning blue, gasping at times for air, but still no pulse, no reactions, no anything.”

The coaches remembered their CPR training and sprung into action while they waited for help to arrive. They gave Dwight CPR for almost 15 minutes.

“It happened in the blink of an eye, but it felt like an eternity,” Crouch said. “What we did together to team up – we just kind of took it together, controlled it, did what we knew was best and we just kind of kept going for him.”