'It just seems surreal': Former coaches of Marquette University lacrosse players mourn students' deaths
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Tributes have been pouring in from all over the country for 19-year-old Scott Mishoud and 20-year-old Noah Snyder, two Marquette University students who died in a car crash Friday afternoon.
A 41-year-old driver reportedly collided into another vehicle carrying six people. Snyder and Mishoud died from their injuries at the scene, and two other Marquette students were taken to the hospital but expected to survive.
"It's gut-wrenching," shared Brad Gillies, a former coach of Snyder. He described Noah as "a great kid, great teammate."
Snyder was from New York, and Gillies described him as a "lax rat" - meaning he was playing whenever he could. That included for the Haudenosaunee Nationals, a Native American national team that competes around the world. He was also on offense for the Junior Knighthawks in the Rochester/Buffalo area, where he met Gillies.
"You just think about when you're heading to -- heading to college and going to play college lacrosse, just the excitement and everything that comes along with that... for this tragedy to hit is just, it's horrible," said Gillies.
He went on to say he felt the immense loss, feeling for the family and friends of "a young kid with a promising future."
"It just seems surreal, just when you see that, and you see his picture, and just the kind of magnitude of that. That loss is pretty, pretty gut-wrenching."
From another former team, the Jr Bandits, Dan Ristine shared, "Noah was a great lacrosse player and an even better human being. His smile and positive energy lit up the room, and his teammates would gravitate to him because of it."
Also passing in the crash was his teammate, Scott Michaud, from Springboro, Ohio, described as "a fearless goalie" by his former coach, Stefan Schroder. “He had said this week he had just had the best week of practice of his life, he felt like. He had felt so confident in the cage. He was, he was going to do very good things.”
No charges have been filed yet for the 41-year-old driver who hit the vehicle that Snyder and Michaud were in.