NDSU's Taylor treated at hospital

By Jeff Kolpack

March 15, 2003 at 11:00 PM

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- North Dakota State athletic director Gene Taylor was treated and released at a local hospital late Friday night after experiencing symptoms of dehydration.

Taylor was watching the second half of the University of North Dakota and Minnesota-Duluth women's basketball game when his vision became blurry.

"I felt like I was about to pass out," Taylor said Saturday.

He was taken to Brookings Hospital by ambulance, but was released after undergoing tests. It was not cardiac related. He was diagnosed as being dehydrated.

"They did every kind of coronary check they could," Taylor said.

Taylor was in Brookings for the North Central Regional tournament.

The Bison defeated Nebraska-Kearney earlier Friday.

He returned to Fargo on Saturday.

Readers can reach Forum reporter Jeff Kolpack at (701) 241-5546

By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.