Jun 04, 2013 11:33 AM EDT By Russell Westerholm, UniversityHerald Reporter

A 19-year-old basketball player, Joe Glynn, died Monday night after collapsing in a summer recreational league game, the Associated Press reported.

Glynn, who just finished his freshman year at Bentley University, was playing a recreational league game for the AAU Middlesex Magic when he collapsed around 7:30 p.m., according to the Boston Herald. He was then taken to Auburn Hills Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Magic coach Michael Crotty Jr. told the Boston Herald no one touched Glynn before collapsing.

"There was no physical contact at all," he said. "He just went down and the game was stopped. Everyone is still stunned, just can't believe something like this happened."

Glynn is regarded as one of the greatest players to come out of Brockton, Massachusetts' Cardinal Spellman High School. He amassed 1,000 points in his high school career early on in his junior season and finished his four years with 1,425 points and 803 rebounds. As a senior, he averaged 20 points and ten rebounds per game and was named to the Herald Dream Team.

"It's hard to take, I am just learning about it," Mike Perry, Glynn's high school coach, told the Boston Herald. "He was a great kid, came from a great, close-knit family."

Glynn was an honors student and was named to the All-Scholastic team while playing at Spellman.

"He was an outstanding athlete and an even better person," Nate Merritt, spokesman for Cardinal Spellman, said in a statement. "He always represented Spellman better than we could have even asked. Putting this tragedy into words is virtually impossible."

Crotty said Glynn was an exemplary young man.

"He's the best, just the best kid you could ever coach," Crotty said. "If you have a son, that's the type of son you want. If you have a daughter, (Joe) is the type of kid you want her coming (home) with - he's just that good a kid."

Lt. Michael Lawn of the Watertown Police told the AP the cause of death was still undetermined and it did not appear suspicious.

Joe Glynn was the only boy of Susan and Joseph Glynn's five children. He is survived by his sisters Kelly, Sarah, Stephanie and Ashley.

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