York High School track coach Nicholas Karavolos used CPR to save student athlete Chloe Peot from cardiac arrest during meet [Video]

ELMHURST, Ill. (WLS) — York High School coach Nicholas Karavolos saved student-athlete Chloe Peot’s life by performing CPR on her when she collapsed at a track meet in April.

Peot would likely have been a state qualifier in the triple jump, but she never got the chance. In fact, but for Karavolos’ quick action, she might not be here at all.

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“I don’t remember warming up or taking any of my jumps,” she said.

Peot suffered a sudden cardiac arrest after finishing her last triple jump at a meet in April. She collapsed and barely had a pulse when Coach Karavolos sprang into action, putting his CPR training to good use.

“Someone said the word CPR and that’s when it clicked in. OK, we need to do this now,” he said.

Karavolos performed …