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A Dowling Coach's Return After Cardiac Arrest – Claude Wilkins – 10/15/2026
Less than three weeks after suffering a cardiac emergency on the way to a road game, Dowling Catholic freshman head coach Claude Wilkins joins Deacon Mark Campbell to share his story.
Coach Wilkins — 17 years on the Dowling staff, 15 as head coach at the freshman level — describes a game day that began like any other, the decision to invite athletic trainer Blake Willey to sit beside him at the front of the bus, and the coaches who caught him and began CPR within moments. After paramedics restored his pulse and surgeons cleared a major blockage, his doctors encouraged a slow, steady return…
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