The Blazers Drafted This Guy - R.I.P.

[ABM]

http://www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&ATCLID=3672953

Mike Whitmarsh, a 1996 Olympic silver medalist in beach volleyball, was found dead in the garage of a friend's home. He was 46.

His body was found Tuesday at a home in Solana Beach, just north of San Diego, San Diego County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said Wednesday. The medical examiner's office said a cause of death hadn't been determined.......

........Whitmarsh, 6-foot-7, was born in San Diego and attended Monte Vista High and Grossmont College in California before transferring to the University of San Diego. In 1984, he led the school to its first West Coast Conference basketball championship. He was drafted by the Portland Trailblazers and played briefly with the Minnesota Timberwolves before beginning his pro beach volleyball career......

 

[Denny Crane]

I was going to post about this.

I knew Mike Whitmarsh; I used to do his WWW site even. It was after his NBA career with the Blazers was done and he was a star Pro Beach Volleyball player.

I only talked with him in person a few times, but he was genuinely a nice guy.

46 is too young.

 

[ehizzy3]

R.i.p.

 

[ABM]

Sad, sad, sad....

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/18/bn18mike2-whitmarsh-update/?zIndex=54981

SAN DIEGO – Olympic silver medalist Mike Whitmarsh committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning after inhaling car-exhaust fumes, the Medical Examiner's Office announced Wednesday.

Whitmarsh's body was found Tuesday morning in the garage of a friend's home on Shoemaker Lane in Solana Beach. The friend found him unresponsive and paramedics later pronounced him dead.
Whitmarsh, 46, is survived by his wife, Cindy, who owns a local fitness and nutrition company, and two daughters.

The Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday that Whitmarsh resided with family in San Diego, but occasionally stayed with the friend in Solana Beach........

 

[ABM]

Sad, sad, sad. Appears as if he was headed towards divorce..............

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_11771487