Three University of Wyoming Swimmers Die in Car Accident Amid Mountain West Championships

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THREE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING SWIMMERS DIE IN CAR ACCIDENT AMID MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS

Riley Overend | February 23rd, 2024

University of Wyoming head swim coach Dave Denniston said his program is “devastated” following the loss of three swimmers in a deadly car crash on Thursday afternoon.

Denniston said the team will release more information about the situation as soon as the victims’ families have been notified, a task made more difficult by the fact that one of them is an international student.

The victims were reportedly one 18-year-old woman and two men ages 21 and 22. Two other men’s swimmers ages 20 and 2021 were injured in the crash and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

“We are heartsick at the news of this terrible tragedy for our university, our state, our student-athlete community and, most importantly, the families and friends of these young people,” Wyoming president Ed Seidel said. “Words are insufficient to express our sadness.”

The Wyoming women are in the midst of competing at the 2024 Mountain West Championships this week in Houston, Texas. The crash apparently occurred in Northern Colorado’s Larimer County, more than an hour away from the Cowgirls’ campus in Laramie, Wyoming.

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1. How sad!