The UMass-Lowell student who drowned while swimming with friends in western Massachusetts last weekend has been identified as a top student and a member of the school's track team.
The school said in a statement that Oluwatoni Onikeku drowned Sunday while swimming in the Deerfield River in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Onikeku was an all-conference high jumper and sprinter on UMass-Lowell's track team and was a political science major with a 3.15 GPA. He would have been a senior in the fall.
He was a native of Nigeria who more recently lived in Fitchburg, where he attended high school.
Track and field coach Gary Gardner called Onikeku "hard working ... focused" and a "true team leader."
The death remains under investigation.
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