Please read this story...sad news
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Very very sad story and circumstance that happened today at the high school pool. :( I really feel sorry for the parents of this person, and I'm sure a lawsuit of some kind will be coming. I'm just glad I wasn't one of the teachers who was supposed to be "watching" the class.
I swim with my masters group every morning in this pool, and for the remainder of the month, ALL groups are out of the pool. Apparently the high school P.E. classes that use the pool for their swimming portion of the year, do so with the regular P.E. teachers supervising. Not a trained lifeguard, water instructor, etc. type of person. Just a regular old teacher.
I just talked with my masters coach, and she got the call from the school that said we are out, along with the swim team is out, and every user group out till the end of the month while they "do an investigation".
Basically what is going to be happening, is that they are going to require having a paid lifeguard on deck while all groups are using the pool. Not a problem for us to pay for that in the morning for masters, but kinda sucks that we're out till December. Hopefully we'll be able to return then, if not sooner!
I will still be able to swim in the afternoons at the YMCA pool, but I do enjoy my mornings.
Another story from this morning, just updating with more info:
WENATCHEE — A freshman at Wenatchee High School who apparently drowned in the school swimming pool Thursday may have been underwater for more than 40 minutes before being discovered, unresponsive, on the bottom of the pool.
Antonio Reyes was found at 10:53 a.m., said Sgt. John Kruse with the Wenatchee Police Department. He was taken by ambulance to Central Washington Hospital but could not be revived.
Reyes had been in the pool with classmates in a swimming class that was held between 9:13 and 10:09 a.m., Kruse said.
“Police investigators interviewed classmates and teachers, and determined Reyes likely drowned while in class, though his classmates and teacher were unaware of this occurring,” Kruse said in a press release Thursday evening.
Students in the next scheduled swimming class found the boy, Kruse said. He was pulled out of the pool and teachers performed CPR on him until emergency medical services workers arrived and took over.
Foul play is not suspected, Kruse said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, said Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris.
Capt. Doug Jones with the Wenatchee Police Department said this morning that other students in the physical education class told officers that they remember seeing Reyes during the first activity of the class, which involved treading water as a group. The next activity was joining hands and creating a current in the water, and the third activity was water polo. No one remembered him being there for water polo, Jones said.
After Reyes was pulled from the pool, the high school was put into lockdown mode, which the school describes as normal procedure for urgent situations. The lockdown was lifted about 12:40 pm.
Superintendent Brian Flones said this morning that Reyes was found in the deep end of the pool. He said he did not know if Reyes was a good swimmer.
Dee Riggs: 664-7147
deeriggs@wenatcheeworld.com
The P.E. teacher (named in another story) is on adminstrative leave as well, which is standard for something like this happening, as is when an officer fires his weapon on duty.
Another story from this morning, just updating with more info:
WENATCHEE — A freshman at Wenatchee High School who apparently drowned in the school swimming pool Thursday may have been underwater for more than 40 minutes before being discovered, unresponsive, on the bottom of the pool.
Antonio Reyes was found at 10:53 a.m., said Sgt. John Kruse with the Wenatchee Police Department. He was taken by ambulance to Central Washington Hospital but could not be revived.
Reyes had been in the pool with classmates in a swimming class that was held between 9:13 and 10:09 a.m., Kruse said.
“Police investigators interviewed classmates and teachers, and determined Reyes likely drowned while in class, though his classmates and teacher were unaware of this occurring,” Kruse said in a press release Thursday evening.
Students in the next scheduled swimming class found the boy, Kruse said. He was pulled out of the pool and teachers performed CPR on him until emergency medical services workers arrived and took over.
Foul play is not suspected, Kruse said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, said Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris.
Capt. Doug Jones with the Wenatchee Police Department said this morning that other students in the physical education class told officers that they remember seeing Reyes during the first activity of the class, which involved treading water as a group. The next activity was joining hands and creating a current in the water, and the third activity was water polo. No one remembered him being there for water polo, Jones said.
After Reyes was pulled from the pool, the high school was put into lockdown mode, which the school describes as normal procedure for urgent situations. The lockdown was lifted about 12:40 pm.
Superintendent Brian Flones said this morning that Reyes was found in the deep end of the pool. He said he did not know if Reyes was a good swimmer.
Dee Riggs: 664-7147
deeriggs@wenatcheeworld.com
The P.E. teacher (named in another story) is on adminstrative leave as well, which is standard for something like this happening, as is when an officer fires his weapon on duty.
