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SCARY SPORTS

April 1, 1999

UNBC Swim Team Drowns in Freak Parking Accident

By Bill Luga

All of the students
composing UNBC’s
Gold Medal winning
men’s — synchronized

swim team have
drowned during a
bizarre accident in park-
ing lot A of the Prince

George UNBC campus.
On Tuesday March 23,
1999, the team was
embarking on a tour of

the northern campuses
to showcase their tal-
ents when their bus
unexpectedly _disap-

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peared into the largish
puddle in the far corner
of Parking lot A.

“It was just too weird,”
said a girl who would
only identify herself as
Mindy, “They just, like,
drove into the puddle
and didn’t, like, come
out. | went over to see
what was going on and
all | saw were some
flowered bathing caps
and a set of nose plugs
floating on the surface
of the puddle.”

The UNBC Fitness
Centre issued a state-
ment shortly after the
tragedy occurred stating
that “the loss of our only
varsity level sports team
is a great blow to the
entire University. This
accident is doubly tragic
because UNBC is so far
along in its sportsplex
completion, in only 20
years there is the possi-
bility of a full sized gym-
nasium and only 5 or 6
years after that perhaps
we would have a pool. “

Jim O’Meara, the
UNBC Fitness Centre’s
Recreation/Sports
Intermural Coordinator,
was horrified by the
announcement of the
accident, “Il can’t believe
! worked for 4 years to
get a varsity team and
they drowned in the
parking lot, these peo-
ple were supposed to
be able to swim, they
were the swim team,
and they couldn't make
it out of the puddle...”

There was a mood of
shock on Campus after
the accident. One
amazed student stut-
tered “I didn’t even know
there was a swim team,
does this mean we have
a pool?”

Authorities are still div-
ing to recover the bod-
ies and an investigation
into the Facilities
department to discover
why the lot was not
maintained is pending.

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10am - 3:30 pm

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