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UW police officer saves student’s life during Badgers hockey game Saturday

A UW-Madison police officer keeping an eye on behavior in the student section during the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey game at the Kohl Center on Saturday night may have helped save a student?s life.

A 20-year-old student stood up at his seat and then collapsed. He had no pulse and was not breathing, UW-Madison Police Capt. Karen Soley said. UW-Madison Police Officer John Deering saw the student fall, rushed over and began chest compressions. Madison Fire Department paramedics arrived a short time later and used an external defibrillator to revive the student.