UPDATE: GVSU student who died of heart condition likely did not have symptoms, doctor says

ALLENDALE -- Shane Anthony Welch of Saginaw, who was living with relatives in Kentwood while attending Grand Valley State University, is the 21-year-old student who died Tuesday evening at the student recreation center, school officials said today.

Welch was studying public administration in the College of Community and Public Service, GVSU said. He was also a part-time security worker for GVSU's downtown Pew Campus.

About 200 students gathered Thursday night at the Kirkhof Center last night for a memorial service.

Welch had been playing pickup basketball with friends, complained of chest pains, stepped out of the game for a few minutes, and then fainted, Grand Valley spokesman Matt McLogan said.

He said fieldhouse staff immediately began CPR and deployed the defibrillator kept in the facility. The recreation center is attached to the fieldhouse.

Ambulance crews soon arrived and also tried resuscitating him. He was pronounced dead at the scene, McLogan said.

Counselors met with his friends and family, who arrived throughout the evening.

GVSU officials said he commonly used the last name Welch, although campus records also identify him as Peoples-Welch.