A 22-year-old faculty pupil from Westminster was amongst 9 individuals who died in a fiery crash in West Texas involving College of the Southwest golf groups.
Jackson Zinn, 22, who graduated from Ralston Valley Excessive Faculty in 2018, was amongst these killed Tuesday night when a pickup truck crossed the middle line of a two-lane highway, about 30 miles east of the New Mexico state line, and crashed right into a van carrying members of the college’s males’s and ladies’s golf groups, in line with Texas authorities. Two college students athletes had been critically injured within the crash.
A junior on the College of the Southwest, a non-public Christian college in in Hobbs, N.M., Zinn was majoring in hospitality administration, with a minor in sports activities administration. A aggressive golfer, Zinn deliberate to pursue a administration profession with the PGA, in line with the college’s males’s golf webpage.
Zinn’s “Greatest Sports activities Reminiscence” was profitable his first Rocky Mountain Junior Golf Tour occasion, the Southwest Mustangs web site stated. Zinn was a First Staff All-Convention golfer in 2017 whereas at Ralston Valley, a Jeffco Public Faculties highschool. He listed his favourite sports activities staff because the Denver Broncos. Zinn is survived by his mother and father, Jennifer Jackson and Greg Zinn; and two siblings, Avery and Audrey.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
