Marquette athletics canceled all its home athletic events over the weekend after the deaths of two men’s lacrosse players in a crash near campus on Sept. 5.
The student-athletes killed in the crash at North 27th Street and West St. Paul Avenue were identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office as 19-year-old Scott Michaud and 20-year-old Noah Snyder. The person arrested at the same scene shortly after the crash was driving while intoxicated, according to the Milwaukee police arrest log.
Marquette held a memorial service for both athletes Sept. 6, which had hundreds of students and community members in attendance.
The canceled events included volleyball matches against Dayton on Sept. 6 and Buffalo on Sept. 7 at the Al McGuire Center. Men’s soccer was scheduled to play Wisconsin on Sept. 6 and women’s soccer was set to face Notre Dame on Sept. 7, with both matches at Valley Fields.
A Marquette athletics spokesperson told the Marquette Wire in an email the tentative plan, subject to change, is that volleyball will play two less matches, while both soccer teams might try to find another match. It will not be Notre Dame, though, for the women’s team, and Wisconsin is still up in the air for the men.
The men’s golf program is still participating in the Gopher Invitational Sept 7-8 at Windsong Farm Golf Club in Maple Plain, Minn., the spokesperson confirmed.
This article was written by Jack Albright. He can be reached at jack.albright@marquette.edu or on Twitter/X @JackAlbrightMU.