Savy King, a defender for Angel City FC, collapsed during an NWSL game on May 9 but credited her medical team for saving her life. After over 10 minutes of treatment on the field, she was hospitalized where they discovered a heart abnormality. Following surgery for her anomalous left coronary artery, King expressed gratitude for her recovery and the chance to play again, saying she will return even stronger. Angel City FC officials emphasized the timely intervention by the medical staff as critical to her positive outcome.
"They saved my life," King told Good Morning America. "That will stay with me forever in my heart. And just knowing that I get to play in front of them, too, and see that they were a huge reason why I'm here, I play for them, too, now."
"For it to happen on that night, in our home stadium, where we had our entire medical team there, it was an incredible work of that group and the timing that it actually happened, to be able to have the outcome that we had," Angel City FC high performance director Sarah Smith told Good Morning America.
Dr. Richard Kim, who led King's medical team at the hospital, told GMA that King was born with an anomalous left coronary artery.
"I was just so happy that I was going to be able to recover and be as normal and almost be like a Savy 2.0 now, so I'll be back, and I'll be better than ever."
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