Sandbu Sandburg High A.D. dies in crash
The The athle athletic director at Sandburg High School in Orland Orland Park Park died in an apparent auto accident.
Bruce Bruce Sc Scheidegger, 54, was found Sunday near Mount Carroll Carroll at at a a spot where his vehicle had left the road and gone gone over over a a steep embankment, authorities said.
Scheideg Scheidegger had been reported missing shortly after 11 11 p.m. p.m. on on S Saturday, Carroll County sheriff ’s police said.
News News of of S Scheidegger’s death spread quickly in the school school comm community Sunday.
“It’s “It’s just just a a terrible, terrible thing,” said Rich Piatchek, athletic athletic dire director at Andrew High School in Tinley Park. Both Both schools schools are in Consolidated High School District 230.
Piaatchek Piatchek said Scheidegger has a home in in the the Lake Lake Carroll community in Carroll County, County, whe where he was staying during the weekend. weekend. H He had left Friday for a state bowling bowling tou tournament in Rockford, where the the Sandbu Sandburg girls team was playing.
Concern Concern began to intensify Sunday morning morning aft after his wife, Debbie, had called called friend friends and colleagues because she she was was not not able to reach him.
“I “I had had a ab bad feeling this morning when I found out that he he was was miss missing, much less to find out how it was going to turn turn out out like like this,” Piatchek said. “He was a brother.”
Piatchek Piatchek said Sandburg planned to have grief counselors selors at at the the school Monday. “It’s “It’s just just a real tragedy for everybody,” he said. A A Carroll Carroll County sheriff ’s officer found a vehicle north north of of Mo Mount Carroll. The vehicle had been headed north north when when it left the roadway, drove over a steep embankmen embankment and turned over, sheriff ’s police said. The driver driver of of th the vehicle was identified as Scheidegger. He was was pronou pronounced dead at the scene. Sheriff ’s police said the the incident incident was under investigation.
Scheideg Scheidegger was in his fifth year as athletic director and and was was hig highly regarded by his colleagues.
“He “He was was a great athletic director but, most importantly, tantly, a a gre great man,” said Sandburg boys basketball coach coach Todd Todd Allen. “He was always there for his coaches, es, and and we we a always had his support. He was always fair.” Scheideg Scheidegger is survived by three daughters.
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