REGINA \u2014 The family of a Saskatchewan Roughrider player killed in a highway crash says he was deeply loved and will be missed beyond words.<\/p>\n
They say in a statement that they are grateful for the outpouring of love and support from everyone who knew Jayden Dalke.<\/p>\n
RCMP have said the 30-year-old linebacker was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway near Regina on Saturday, when he smashed into another vehicle.<\/p>\n
Dalke and the other driver, 22-year-old Bhishma Rajyaguru, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The player’s family also offered condolences to Rajyaguru’s family and to emergency responders affected by the crash.<\/p>\n
They ask anyone wishing to honour Dalke to make a donation to the CFL team’s charity.<\/p>\n
“Jayden gave generously to his community and the organizations he cared about,” the family said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n
“In lieu of flowers or gifts, we ask that donations be made to the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation in his memory.<\/p>\n
“We thank the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Rider Nation for their love and support.”<\/p>\n
Dalke was from Leduc, Alta., while Rajyaguru came to Canada from India as an international student in 2022 and was living in Regina.<\/p>\n
The Roughriders paid tribute to both men at the team’s home game against the Edmonton Elks on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The team has shared a GoFundMe page for Rajyaguru’s family, which had raised more than $93,000 as of Friday afternoon, to cover the cost of repatriating his body to India.<\/p>\n
Dalke’s family ended the statement asking for privacy, “as we grieve this unimaginable loss.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 The family of a Saskatchewan Roughrider player killed in a highway crash says he was deeply…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-826176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}