Pitt College Football player was 18 years old

Pittsburgh Panthers' soccer team mourns after an 18-year-old Cornerback died at a car accident in Indiana at the weekend.

Freshman Recruit Mason Alexander was killed in an accident in his hometown of Fisher in the northeast of Indianapolis on Saturday, March 1st, according to reports USA TODAYFox 59 and WRTV.

According to the Hamilton County's office, Alexander was a passenger in the car, a BMW that drove south on the Florida Road when the driver of the car tried to drive another vehicle from the north track. The BMW dissolved from the street to avoid a frontal collision, fall into a tree and then catch fire, the authorities added.

The emergency staff declared Alexander dead at 9 p.m., the outlets reported.

The HAMALTON County's office did not immediately respond to the request of the people in order to obtain further information.

Alexander was a graduate of the Hamilton Southeasters High School in Indiana and had enrolled at the University of Pittsburg in January. ESPN took him into the list of top 300 recruits in class 2025, and in class 2025, and and USA TODAY reported that he had also received offers from several top programs, including Purdue and Wisconsin.

Many members of the college football community in Pittsburg have shown themselves since the 18-year-old's death, including the head coach of the team Pat Narduzzi. In an explanation that was shared by the social media, Narduzzi thought about Alexander's football career and wrote that the team was “shocked and deeply sad” to learn something about his death.

“I received a call this morning that no parent, teacher or trainer would ever want to receive the news about the sudden loss of a young and promising life,” wrote Narduzzi. “Our entire program is shocked and deeply sad to learn from Mason Alexander's death.”

“Mason had registered in Indiana in Indiana, just in January after his early ending at the Hamilton Southeastern High School. Even in this short time, he all made us a big impression on all of us,” the head coach continued. “Mason was proud and excited to be a panther, and we felt the same way as he has in our family Pitt. He will always be a panther for us. The Alexander and Masons family will love and friends in our prayers.”

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Alexander's former high school colleague and the current player at Butler University, Peyton Daniels, also shared a warm contribution to social media. In the X -Post he shared a photo of himself and Alexander, who smiled in her football uniforms, and wrote that it was “difficult to find the words that were now to be said”.

“Mason illuminated every room in which he was. She brought everything and every joy and playfulness. He was able to change the entire direction of her day with an interaction,” wrote Daniels. “Mason is the embodiment of extraordinary. Just rest 15th love forever.”