We are very saddened to report that we learned of former Corona del Mar High discus standout Sean Fenton losing his life in a fatal automobile accident this past week. Multiple news report indicated Fenton, a 2000 graduate of the Orange County area school and a football player at Yale University, was the driver of a sports utility vehicle involved in a collision with a snow plow tractor. Fenton and three others lost their lives.

Fenton played both football and track at Corona del Mar, and was named The Los Angeles Times' Orange County discus thrower of the year in his senior season. Sean played football at while at Yale, and was also a member of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES).

Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Sean Fenton.

Report from Keith Chann:

"Friends and family are remembering a Holyoke baseball star who was killed in a highway crash last week in Connecticut.
A wake is being held this afternoon for Nicholas Grass. The 19-year-old Grass died Saturday after a crash that killed three other Yale students.
A total of nine Yale students were involved in the crash early Friday morning, when their SUV hit a rig on Interstate 95 in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Twenty-year-old Sean Fenton, of Newport Beach, California, 19-year-old Kyle Burnat, of Atlanta, and 19-year-old Andrew Dwyer, of Hobe Sound, Florida, also died in the wreck.
About 500 people attended a memorial at Yale yesterday for Fenton. He was the driver of the SUV.
A spokesperson at Norwalk Hospital say Yale freshman quarterback Brett Smith is still in critical condition following Friday's horrific accident on I-95 in Fairfield.
State police say the Yale students were in an SUV that tragically crashed into the flatbed trailer that had gone out of control.
Doctors at Bridgeport Hospital say Yale senior and football fullback Zachary Bradley is in good condition and was discharged Monday. Bradley is moving to the Yale Infirmary.
Yale senior and football fullback Eric Wenzel is still in critical condition suffering from chest injuries."

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