A Hardin County teen critically injured less than two weeks ago after jumping from the 16.7-foot tall high dive at E-town Swim & Fitness Center''s Olympic-size pool has died.

JaMark McCloud, 16, a senior at John Hardin High School, died early Saturday morning at Kosair Children''s Hospital, said family spokesman Deron Bell.

"I think JaMark will be remembered as a fun-loving, athletic, straight-A student who will be well missed," Bell said. "He was his daddy''s hero."

Bell said visitation, funeral and burial arrangements, which are being handled by Percell & Sons Funeral Home in Elizabethtown, are expected to be finalized today.

McCloud had been in a coma, unresponsive, at Kosair since he was injured. But Bell said, "It wasn''t expected. He was progressing, but he just took a turn for the worst."

Bell said McCloud''s mother, Contina McCloud, his father, Staff Sgt. JaMark McCloud St., his younger brother JaTravis McCloud, and an aunt were at his bedside when he died.

McCloud and three others were swimming near midnight July 14 after working out at the fitness center. When McCloud dove in and didn''t surface, one of his friends called 911.

Several minutes later, Elizabethtown Police Department late night supervisor Jamie Land arrived at the pool, pulled McCloud out and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.

McCloud was a running back and a defensive back on the Bulldogs'' football team and a sprinter and jumper on the boys'' track and field team.

"I don''t know what you can say. Any time something like this happens to a young person, it''s tragic," said Mark Brown, John Hardin''s football coach and athletics director. "You hate to see this kind of thing happen and it affects all of his friends and teammates because he was so well thought of, so it''s tragic for them too."

Brown said the school had not determined how to memorialize McCloud but said the football team will wear its game jerseys to the funeral.

McCloud is the second John Hardin senior athlete to die in less than three years. Basketball center Dominik Bonano, a 17-year-old from Rineyville, died Feb. 10, 2005, after being removed from life support following a single-vehicle car crash.

"You hate this. Gosh. You can never be prepared for anything like that," Brown said.

From an email: He was in a coma for 2 weeks before passing away. He and some of his friends snuck in Elizabethtown Kentuckys Swim And Fitness. Jamark then jumped of the high dive although he could not swim. His friends then thought he was joking after he did not rise. A local police officer then arrived pulling him out. He was later takin to the hospital where he stayed in a coma until his death.