As per recent reports, it has been revealed that the mother of a young football star who died following a critical cardiac arrest which came his way on a Ballarat football field during the year that went by, has now promoted a move for the need of putting defibrillators in sporting clubs all over the state.

Bernie Prince, whose son Nathan, 17-year-old, died during the last year in August, described it as immensely “fantastic” news that the St John Ambulance Victoria had instigated a program for the sake of equipping in excess of 2300 sporting clubs which has the life-saving gadgets.

While expressing her opinion in this regard, along with mentioning what all consequences it can have on the safety aspects for footballers in the time to follow, Ms. Prince claimed: “If this program can take away the risk of what happened to us happening to another family, then the initiative is a good thing”.

Her son was a promising footballer for Bacchus Marsh junior, but sadly the promising footballer left the world on August 31, 2011, a mere 11 days after the accident in which he was hit in the chest while playing in the under 16.5 qualifying final of the club against North Ballarat City. Due to the impact, he suffered a critical cardiac arrest

His soul Bacchus Marsh team finally lifted the 2011 premiership. Ever since then, the club has named its best and fairest prize of the under 18 segment as the “Nathan Prince Award”. In addition, it has been reported by officials of the club that the Nathan Prince scholarship will be provided every year to an associate of the Western Jets TAC Cup group who signs up at the Melbourne-based Victoria University.