Overview

• In a Good Morning America interview, King recounted feeling lightheaded before collapsing and praised her team’s trainers for delivering life-saving CPR.
• Doctors at Cedars-Sinai diagnosed her with an anomalous left coronary artery and performed surgery to reroute blood flow around the defect.
• King is recuperating at home while intensifying her rehabilitation in pursuit of a return to professional play, though she has not yet been medically cleared.
• She plans to leverage her platform to promote widespread CPR education after experiencing cardiac arrest on the field.
• The NWSL has pledged to stop and abandon matches in similar emergencies after admitting the May 9 game should have been halted.