OT: Trey Whitfield

[spider23]

Just came across this, some of you may recall when this tragedy occurred. Trey was the big man recruit that we were always looking for, and passed away in a boating accident prior to matriculating. Nice to see he is still being honored.

http://www.treywhitfieldfoundation.org/abouttrey.html

 

[urfan1]

nice find, thanks for posting

 

[WebSpinner]

recall, sadly, Trey's accident and also the accident that took the life of another recruit from manchester high school, believe, Joe Green, before they stepped on campus.

 

[Stork3]

Dick Tarrant was estatic when Trey signed with us. The young man had a 4.3 scholastic average, and had chosen us over Connecticut and Purdue. Such a tragedy.

 

[spider23]

Back then there was not a ton of recruiting information as there is today - usually a few blurbs in a RTD article. There was a big buzz around Trey's comittment - as Stork noted he was being recruited by a lot of big schools and probably would be considered a top 50 recruit in today's world. Sounded like a really good guy too.

 

[BillyWayne]

Don't mean to be too morbid here, but as I recall, he was buried in a Spider uniform.

 

[spider fan]

One of the sadder events that concerned our basketball program. Trey was excited and committed to being a Spider.