"Everything was OK until I got the call and they said something happened to my son," describes Pearl Spencer.
Thursday afternoon, 14-year-old Solomon Spencer was doing practice drills for Pearl City's JV football team.
"In the midst of it, he was driving the other person and he collapsed," says Pearl Spencer.
Coaches rushed to his aid including Athletic Health Care Trainer Colin Lee...
"When I got to him he wasn't breathing he didn't have a pulse," Lee said Thursday.
Lee grabbed the Department's Automated External Defibrillator or AED.
"We hooked him up and he started coming around but I still had to do some CPR and eventually the pulse came back," says Lee.
The AED sent an electric shock to get Spencer's heart pumping again. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
"According to the Doctors, if it wasn't for that it definitely would have been a different story," says Pearl Spencer.
"They do save lives, and this all began with a life being saved over on Maui with a JV Baseball Coach," says Mike Stollar, HMSA.
Castle High School Assistant Baseball Coach Brent Taniguchi collapsed during his team's warm-ups four years ago.
An AED on the field saved his life. Former Hawaii High School Athletic Association Director Keith Amemiya teamed with HMSA to make sure every Athletic Department from then on out had one.
"Having AED's at sporting events, having AED's in the school system, at the schools is just a good idea," says Stollar.
"In this case thank God for that equipment and for the people who were trained to use that equipment," says Pearl Spencer.
Solomon Spencer is undergoing tests in the hospital but his mom expects him to make a full recovery.
