CRESTON, Iowa —

Five months after collapsing at a spring track meet, 15-year-old Nate Bentley is back under the Friday night lights — this time with a personalized plan and a heart monitor helping make it possible.

In April, the then-freshman football player, wrestler, and runner had just handed off the baton to his teammate at the Glenwood track meet when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest.

Bentley, a three-sport athlete whose mother says “football was his first love,” went into cardiac arrest in April after handing off the baton in the sprint medley at Glenwood. A coach quickly retrieved the school’s automated external defibrillator (AED) and delivered a shock to the teenager to help revive him before he was rushed to Children’s Nebraska in Omaha.

“When I got there, I realized it w

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