{"id":42992,"date":"2025-11-11T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42992\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:39:08","slug":"19-year-old-uwf-softball-player-killed-in-tallahassee-area-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42992\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old UWF softball player killed in Tallahassee area crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GADSDEN COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; A 19-year-old University of West Florida softball player died in a crash this past weekend in Gadsden County.<\/p>\n<p>UWF posted this message Tuesday afternoon in remembrance of  Cloey Criggall:<\/p>\n<p>We are deeply saddened to share that we have lost a fellow Argonaut, Cloey Criggall, this past weekend. Cloey joined our softball program this fall and was a beloved teammate who will be greatly missed. We send our thoughts and prayers to her family, friends, teammates and all who knew her.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Sunday around 4 p.m. on I-10 in Gadsden County, which is near Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Highway Patrol, Criggall was driving a sedan when she veered off the road and hit a tree. Heavy rain and wet road conditions were present.<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead on scene. No one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Criggall is a native of Suwannee County who graduated this past spring from Branford High School, where she starred for the softball team before joining UWF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud of her, of who she became but,&#8221; Branford HS softball coach Oscar Saavedra told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2025\/11\/11\/former-branford-softball-star-tv20-scholar-athlete-dies-crash-i-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC affiliate WCJB.<\/a> &#8220;What hurts the most is that she worked so hard. She told me all of her dreams, all of her goals &#8212; and she reached them. She got where she wanted to be and unfortunately, she couldn\u2019t live her dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GADSDEN COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; A 19-year-old University of West Florida softball player died in a crash this past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-42992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}