Southeastern University F E A T U R E D
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A Heart of Influence The students, faculty, and staff that make up the influential presence found at Southeastern University
WRITTEN BY ANNALEE MUTZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATE CHAPPELL
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THE DOMINO EFFECT 2017, a freshman collegiate athlete’s world was turned upside down. Xavier Hendrix had just finished a successful high school athletic career and was ready to jump into college football at Southeastern University (SEU). He was set to start the season when he received devastating news. “Two or three days after an EKG (electrocardiogram), the director of the program contacted my athletic trainer and told him there was a problem in my screening and that I needed to see a cardiologist,” says Hendrix. The screening, offered at SEU, found a heart abnormality, and further testing also revealed that Hendrix had Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome – a syndrome in which there is an extra electrical pathway between the heart’s upper and lower chambers that can cause a dangerously rapid heartbeat.
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