Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed in a single-vehicle car crash on a rural Colorado highway, the school announced Friday morning.
The three athletes killed in the wreck were sophomore Charlie Clark, a 19-year-old distance swimmer from Las Vegas, freshman Carson Muir, an 18-year-old freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Birmingham, Ala., and sophomore Luke Slabber, a 21-year-old freestyle and individual medley swimmer from Cape Town, South Africa.
“My thoughts and prayers are with our swimming and diving student-athletes, coaches, families and friends,” athletic director Tom Burnam said in a statement. “It is difficult to lose members of our University of Wyoming family, and we mourn the loss of these student-athletes. We have counseling services available to our student-athletes and coaches in our time of need.”
