On Friday night, Marquette announced that two students had died earlier in the evening as a result of a traffic accident near campus, and two more had been hospitalized due to injuries from the crash. Early on Saturday morning, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office had officially released the names of the deceased: Scott Michaud and Noah Snyder. Both men were sophomores on the Marquette men’s lacrosse team.
That part of the story, in addition
to both of the hospitalized students also being a part of the men’s lacrosse team, resulted in the remainder of the home athletic events this weekend — volleyball on Saturday and Sunday, men’s soccer on Saturday, and women’s soccer on Sunday — to be canceled. That’s not a surprise. The connections between various teams in the athletic department are deep, and men’s lacrosse might actually have an argument as one of the most boisterous groups when it comes to turning up to support the other teams on campus. It’s impossible to ask other teams to go out and compete at anything resembling a high level in the wake of learning that their friends and classmates are gone.
Milwaukee police said a 41-year-old driver collided with the vehicle carrying the six students. The collision happened at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 5 at North 27th Street and West St. Paul Avenue, not far from Marquette’s campus.
The driver was arrested.
No charges were filed as of Saturday; they are pending review by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.
I would imagine that we won’t hear anything about charges in the case until Monday during business hours, and probably not even then. It takes time for paperwork to move, and so on.
Both Michaud and Snyder were freshmen at Marquette in 2024-25, with Snyder making his on-field debut for Jake Richard’s team in the spring of 2025. An attacker from New York, Snyder made his first appearance for Marquette on February 1st against Michigan and he scored his first career goal in a 15-7 win over Cleveland, going for a hat trick and two assists in the victory. He finished the season with nine goals and seven assists, and made it into the starting lineup for MU’s final three games of the season. Michaud was the youngest of the four goalies on last year’s roster, and with Lucas Lawas playing all but 45 minutes last season, it’s not a surprise that the Ohioan had yet to make his regular season debut for the Golden Eagles.
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