Kentucky college pays $14m after wrestler ‘begged for water’ before heat death

• Grant Brace, 20, was training for new wrestling season
• University of the Cumberlands agrees to settle with family

A Kentucky university has agreed to a settlement of more than $14m over the death of a student wrestler during practice, the institution said in a statement.

The settlement reached on Wednesday over the death of 20-year-old Grant Brace of Louisville, Tennessee, includes an agreement for the University of the Cumberlands to participate in a heat-illness training program and to help raise awareness of heat-related injuries.