The young teen who fell ill after a swimming outing earlier this month with his high school track teammates has died. Michael fought a courageous fight over the past week, allowing him to move on to be with the Lord for future heavenly tasks, a beautiful set of wings, and a pair of gold running shoes. The family vows to honor Riley's legacy by supporting scientific efforts to better understand primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (or as it's better known, PAM) along with an awareness campaign to prevent others from contracting the disease. A 2013 case from Arkansas gave the Riley family hope as well as a guide to treatment methods because that patient, who had contracted the disease from a water park, was one of only two U.S.