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Eight University Of Wyoming Athletes Die In Car Crash
Candlelight vigil for the victims is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Monday night.
Sept. 17, 2001
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Eight members of the Wyoming men's cross country and track team died in a head-on collison early Sunday morning just outside of Laramie. At about 1:30 a.m., a pickup truck travelling south on U.S. 287 apparently swerved into the northbound lane colliding with the sports utility vehicle containing the eight athletes. All seven of the passengers were ejected from the SUV driven by sophomore Nicholas Schabron, dying at the scene. The driver of the pickup, Clinton Haskins, was taken to the hospital and is in serious condition. Haskins, a senior at Wyoming and a member of the Cowboy rodeo team, was the only person involved in the accident wearing a seat belt. It is not known where the runners were coming from since the Cowboys men's cross country team wasn't scheduled to run last weekend and all other Mountain West Conference cross country events were cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Those killed in the accident were track team members Joshua Jones and Kevin Salverson, a senior and sophomore, respectively, and cross country team members junior Cody Brown, sophomores Schabron, Justin Lambert-Belanger, Kyle Johnson and Morgan McLeland, and freshman Shane Shatto. The university postponed the women's soccer match versus Creighton University Monday at noon and the volleyball match against Colorado State on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Both matches will be rescheduled at a later date.
A candlelight vigil for the victims is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Monday night on the Wyoming campus.
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