Tristan WhiteWhite was jogging just before 4 p.m. Friday on a gravel road a few miles south of the town of Treynor, Iowa. He and his teammates were headed south when a 2003 Jeep Liberty headed in the same director struck the athlete, throwing him some distance. CPR was performed by a deputy and a Treynor fire department member who went to the scene when they heard the 911 dispatch.
White was taken by helicopter to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he was pronounced dead. He would have turned 15 this Thursday.
The driver of the Jeep has not been cited but the investigation is ongoing, according to a statement Monday from the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office.
"He would have had a darn good year," Treynor wrestling coach Dean Leaders told WOWT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Omaha. "Starting at a very, very young age, put the time and the effort in and was really excited about being a freshman. There is probably not a man in this world who cares more for Treynor wrestling than his dad."
Tristian White's father Greg White, is the assistant wrestling coach; his sister Mackenzie, a senior, is team manager.
Coach Leaders said of White's teammates who were running alongside him at the time of the accident, "To have to witness something like that, it's not fair to those kids and they're struggling right now."
"I've never seen Tristan in a bad mood," Leaders said. "Never seen him in a bad mood and he was a great one and this town lost a great one. It really did."
Leaders said Tristan White's singlet will hang prominently at every practice and will be taken to every match.
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