Nathan Falito Death – The identity of the young man who drowned in Shuswap Lake last week Thursday, July 23, has been released as 22-year-old Nathan Falito, an athlete who played in the Canadian Junior Football League in Langford, B.C., for the Westshore Rebels and in Alberta for the Edmonton Huskies.
This release was made by a family member through a social media post.
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The football community poured in tributes for their fallen athlete.
According to the Westshore Rebels in a social media post: “Nathan was an outgoing, dynamic and bright young man taken far too soon.”
Falito had been recruited by the University of Calgary for the school’s football team.
“Nathan was an outstanding player who we had hoped would join our program, and we grieve with you all,” says the university’s football team on social media.
Falito was a member of the Edmonton Huskie from 2015 until he left prior to the end of the 2017 football season, says the head coach of the Edmonton Huskies.
In an email to Global News, Huskies head coach Iain MacLean says, “Our thoughts and prayers are with Nathan’s teammates on the Westshore Rebels as well as the Falito family, specifically Nathan’s mother and sister, during this difficult time.”
According to the Shuswap Search and Rescue team, they were called in Thursday afternoon to help search for a man who had disappeared while swimming out to a dock at Canoe Beach in Salmon Arm.
Police have confirmed the RCMP’s underwater recovery team has since recovered the man’s body from the lake.
The release of his identity was not made immediately because RCMP would not independently confirm the man’s identity nor provide information about how the drowning occurred till the file has been passed to the coroner.