NEWPORT BEACH, CA —Newport Seaside U.S. Water Polo participant, Kaleigh Gilchrist, additionally of the USC Water Polo crew, suffered a severe leg damage within the collapse of a balcony inside a nightclub in South Korea, the crew introduced Saturday. Two folks had been killed within the incident and 17 folks had been injured, together with athletes competing on the FINA World Championships, in Friday’s accident on the Coyote Ugly nightclub in Gwangju, South Korea.
“Final night time members of the USA Water Polo Senior Nationwide Groups had been current at an institution in Gwangju, South Korea celebrating the Girls’s Nationwide Group successful the FINA World Championship,” the crew’s officers web site tweeted Saturday.
“Throughout the night a flooring collapsed and a handful of USA Water Polo athletes suffered non-life-threatening accidents. All USA Water Polo athletes are protected and accounted for. Our ideas and prayers are with all these affected by this tragedy.
“… Kaleigh Gilchrist suffered a deep left leg laceration and underwent surgical procedure at present at a hospital in Gwangju.”
Males’s crew members Johnny Hooper, from Los Angeles, wanted stitches for a reduce on his left hand, and Ben Hallock, of Westlake Village, California, suffered minor scrapes to his legs, the crew stated.
