Associated Press: LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A former Kentucky high school football coach has been acquitted in the death of a player who collapsed at a practice where the team was put through a series of sprints on a hot summer day.

It was a rare criminal prosecution of a coach in a player's heat-related death.

Former coach David Jason Stinson was charged after 15-year-old Max Gilpin collapsed at an August 2008 practice as the team ran a series of sprints known as "gassers." He died three days later at a Louisville hospital of heat stroke, sepsis and multiple organ failure. His temperature reached at least 107 degrees.

Players said Stinson ordered the gassers as punishment for the lack of effort players showed at practice on a day where the temperature and heat index were both 94 degrees.

The jury reached a verdict after deliberating for less than two hours.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky jury has gotten the case of a former high school football coach charged in the heat-related death of a player who collapsed during a practice last year.

The case went to the jury Thursday afternoon after prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered closing statements.

Former Pleasure Ridge Park coach David Jason Stinson is charged with reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin. The teen collapsed at a practice at his suburban Louisville school in August 2008 and died at a hospital three days later.

Prosecutors say Stinson ran a brutal practice and ignored signs that players were getting sick the day Gilpin collapsed. Stinson's defense says the practice wasn't unusually hard.

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