SPRING VALLEY — The cause of the death for a Spring Valley teen who died Wednesday during football practice appears to be of natural causes, according to Bureau County Coroner Janice Wamhoff.

Daniel Lule, 17, collapsed about 12:20 p.m. Wednesday on the Hall High School practice field about 20 minutes into an afternoon football practice during a non-contact agility drill. Lule was taken to St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, where he was pronounced dead at about 1:37 p.m.

On Friday morning, Wamhoff said the cause of Lule's death is most certainly of natural causes. There is no indications at all that the death was a suicide,a homicide or caused by an accident. An autopsy was to be performed later that day.