Who was Sione Veikoso? Tributes pour in as BYU football player dies in tragic accident

Sione Veikoso, a hostile lineman in the BYU Cougars football crew of Brigham Youthful College, died on Friday, December 30, 2022, in a development mishap in his old neighborhood, Hawaii. The football crew reported the heartbreaking fresh insight about his passing on Saturday morning, December 31.

The Honolulu Local group of fire-fighters expressed that Sione was visiting Kailua, his local town in Hawaii, when he was caught under a 15-foot holding rock wall at a building site alongside two different men. Right away, crisis administrations were called to the scene. While the other two were harmed and taken to the emergency clinic, Sione Veikoso was articulated dead.

At the point when the wall fell, a few different specialists were caught in the garbage. Nonetheless, what caused the mishap has still not set in stone.

The Brigham Youthful College football crew is profoundly dispossessed by Sione Veikoso’s abrupt passing
Sione’s family members, colleagues, and companions are grieving the 6ft 7 inches tall footballer’s inopportune and inadvertent passing

“In the interest of the whole BYU Football family, our considerations and petitions to heaven are with Sione’s loved ones during this very troublesome time. Rest in Affection Sione. God be with you till we meet once more.”
Kalani Sitake, the lead trainer of the BYU football crew, cited tweeted the group’s tweet and composed:

Sione’s cousin, Josh Kava, said that Sione cherished his folks and was a dependable and caring delicate goliath.

Tom Holmoe, the games chief at BYU, composed on Twitter that the football family at Brigham Youthful College grieves the death of Sione Veikoso, an individual Cougar and a dear colleague. Holmoe expanded his affection and backing for Sione’s loved ones at such a troublesome time. He finished up his message with the accompanying:

“Harmony accompany you now and perpetually Sione.”

According to the Honolulu Local group of fire-fighters’ acting fire boss, among the rubble where Sione died, there was a great deal of red soil and weighty blue rock, which the salvage groups needed to eliminate. The local group of fire-fighters said they were uncertain assuming work was being done explicitly on the wall to have made it fall.

22-year-old Sione Veikoso prepared to be a competitor at Hawaii’s Kailua Secondary School. From 2018 to 2020, Sione served a full-time mission for Manaus’ The Congregation of Jesus Christ of Modern Holy people in Brazil.

He played at Arizona State for a year until July 2021. There, he took part in one game for the Sun Fiends as a redshirt rookie. He later moved to Brigham Youthful College.

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