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Eighteen-year-old motorcyclist Garrett Ryder Wade was tragically killed Friday, Jan. 15 following a collision with a car in Irvine.

According to police, the fatal motorcycle crash happened around 8:15 a.m. near the intersection of Walnut Avenue and Kazan Street. Wade was rushed to a local hospital where he sadly succumbed to his injuries.

Wade, a resident of Orange and a freshman on the men’s water polo team at Concordia University, was leaving practice at the Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine, when the accident happened.

Wade graduated last year from El Modena High, where he was a standout water polo player, member of ASB and a spirited leader of the student cheering section, athletic director Ed Drzanek said. As a senior in the fall of 2019, Wade was selected first-team All-North Hills League.

“He was that lightning rod that everyone went to — he had that gift,’ a shaken Drzanek said. “There was tremendous leadership in him, We will never know what the world lost.”

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