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Recent Carol City grad Randy Russell's career at UF ends due to heart condition

Randy Russell was just getting his college football career started with the Florida Gators when he found out it was over.

The Miami Carol City three-star safety, who enrolled a semester early at UF and started spring classes this week, had “an abnormality in [his] cardiac workup” discovered in a pre-participation physical, a statement from Florida senior associate athletic director Steve McClain announced on Thursday.

Russell posted on Twitter that he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. According to American Heart Association, it is a condition that is “a common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people, including young athletes.