CRYSTAL LAKE – All Corky Card had with him was years of school-sponsored emergency response training when he saw Daniel Pauling lose consciousness inside the Prairie Ridge High School gym on Friday.

The men’s varsity basketball coach felt odd being called a lifesaver, crediting his training instead for saving the life of Pauling. The 59-year-old janitor was clinically dead from a sudden heart attack Friday before being revived by Card.

“A lot of things went well at the right time,” Card said. “You never know where you are going to be, and you never know what’s going to happen. It was important to have that training.”