The O.C. Foundation was founded in 2014 following the sudden and unexpected event that occured to Omar Carter while playing. Omar is an energetic, humble, happy and seemingly healthy 26 year old that suffered Sudden Cardiac arrest. Omar collapsed on the basketball court at Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, NC on July 11th, 2013 just after having returned from the Dominican Republic where he was playing Professionally. No one knew that Omar suffered a Sudden Cardiac arrest, instead they thought he passed out from heat exhaustion.

As a Survivor of a 13 minute Cardiac arrest, Omar Carter turned his passion of helping others into action and is making his life’s mission to stop any other family from losing their child due to a lack of awareness, screening and immediate treatment of such a preventable tragedy. The Foundation will focus on the training of athletes and families in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of automated external defibrillators (AED), and work to educate the public on cardiovasulcar education.