Two individuals, together with a Louisiana State College ladies’s pole vaulter, died in a automobile crash on the college’s Baton Rouge campus Wednesday night time, in keeping with faculty officers.
At roughly 9:07 p.m. on Wednesday, the motive force of a Honda Accord was touring southbound on Nicholas Drive and tried to make a left activate South Quad Drive, the Baton Rouge Police Division stated in a press release on Thursday.
When making an attempt to make the left flip, the “Honda Accord was struck by the motive force of a BMW motorbike that was touring northbound on Nicholson Drive.”
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, a freshman pole vaulter, was killed in a automobile crash on the LSU campus on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.
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The motive force of the automobile and the motorcyclist, 23-year-old Bohdi Linton, each died on the scene of the accident, police stated.
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, was recognized as the motive force of the automobile, LSU Athletics stated in a assertion on Thursday.
“We’re devastated by the tragic passing of Dillon Reidenauer, who was taken from us a lot too quickly,” LSU observe and subject coach Dennis Shaver stated. “Everybody in our LSU Monitor & Subject household is retaining Dillon’s family members in our ideas and prayers, in addition to these of the opposite particular person misplaced within the incident.”
Reidenauer was a freshman at LSU, pursuing a level in inside design and was part of the ladies’s pole vault workforce, the faculty stated.
Initially from Abita Springs, Louisiana, Reidenauer was one of many high prep pole vaulters within the state whereas attending Fontainebleau Excessive College. She completed second on the 2024 LHSAA 5A Championships and positioned fourth at that very same meet as a junior.
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, a freshman pole vaulter at Louisiana State College, was killed Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in a automobile crash on campus.
Bransen Phillips/Courtesy of LSU Athletics
Her bio on LSU’s athletics web page describes Reidenauer as “the most effective pole vaulters within the state of Louisiana popping out of highschool.”
LSU is likely one of the high pole vaulting packages within the nation, thanks partially to alum Mondo Duplantis, who holds the world report within the occasion and received gold on the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. Reidenauer, as a freshman, was not but competing, however was studying below the workforce’s high pole vaulter, senior Johanna Duplantis, the youthful sister of the acknowledged best pole vaulter of all time.
Shaver stated the workforce is at the moment on the street at Faculty Station, Texas, for the SEC Championships and “thanks Texas A&M for providing their assist and compassion.”
LSU Athletics stated they’re “offering sources and assist to all of our student-athletes and workers immediately impacted by this tragic loss.”
