| SEATTLE (AP) - Kayla Burt ended her college basketball career at Washington on Monday, four days after her internal heart defibrillator went off during a game.
Burt, 23, had the defibrillator implanted in her chest after her heart stopped on New Year's Eve 2002. She was in her off-campus apartment and teammates came to her rescue, performing CPR until paramedics arrived at the scene and took her to the hospital.
"The decision is a mutual agreement between myself, my family, the doctors and the University of Washington," Burt, a senior guard, said at a news conference with coach June Daugherty and the Huskies team doctor, Dr. Kim Harmon.
Harmon agreed with Burt's decision.
"We still don't know why it happened," she said about the Burt's defibrillator going off Thursday night during a home game against UCLA.
The 23-year-old Burt said she didn't want to take any more risks after the defibrillator went off during a timeout in the first half of last week's game, and then a second time while she was waiting to be taken to the hospital.
She went to the University of Washington Medical Center, was held for observation and tests and released the next day.
After her cardiac arrest, she missed the remainder of the 2002-2003 season and redshirted in 2003-2004. Doctors and Burt then decided it was safe for her to play basketball again.
The defibrillator was implanted to shock her heart back to normal rhythm should another abnormality occur. | 
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