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| Monday, September 30, 2002 21:30 EST |
Two killed, 13 injured in crash
[Associated Press]
ASHBURN, Ga. -- Two women were killed and 13 others were
injured when a van carrying a soccer club from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., collided with two other vehicles on Interstate 75 in south
Georgia, officials said Monday.
Sasja Odenyo, a former soccer player for Florida International
University, and Theresa Wint, a former athletic trainer at FIU,
died in the collision Sunday night involving the van, a car and
U-Haul truck about 80 miles north of the Florida state line, the
Georgia State Patrol said.
Another former FIU player, Erika Jaderblom, remained
hospitalized Monday.
The van carrying members of the Florida Rockets soccer team was
returning to the Fort Lauderdale area after an Atlanta-area
tournament. Most of the 15 people in the vehicle were exchange
students from Jamaica or Sweden.
Odenyo, 22, of Uppsala, Sweden, broke FIU records for goals (25)
and points (57) in her junior season. That year, she finished third
in the NCAA in points per game (2.71) and second in goals per game
(1.19) and was named the Sun Belt Conference Tournament MVP.
Wint, 21, of Miami, was a student athletic trainer and one of
the first Upward Bound participants at the university to earn a
diploma. Upward Bound assists aiming to become the first in their
families to obtain a college degree.
Odenyo and Wint both graduated from FIU in the spring.
Jaderblom, a defender, was named second-team All-Sun Belt
Conference last season. A senior, she is still enrolled in classes
at the university.
''All the young women involved were wonderful people,'' FIU
coach Everton Edwards said Monday. ''I'm dumbfounded and numb right
now.''
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