Delaware State University’s most successful athletic team will not compete anymore this season.
The DSU women’s bowling team will not conclude its 2022-23 schedule, the university announced Wednesday, due to the Feb. 23 traffic accident involving the team’s bus.
Two team members and a DSU staffer who were aboard the bus are still being treated in Virginia hospitals, DSU said.
The charter bus transporting the team to an event at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro was traveling south on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County when it ran off the road and overturned at 11:15 a.m., according to Virginia state police. The driver, Lloyd Archer, was charged with reckless driving and failure to maintain control of a vehicle. There were 10 passengers on board in addition to the driver.
“Delaware State University is grateful for the outpouring of prayers and well wishes for our student-athletes and staff as we continue to heal during this time,” DSU athletic director Alecia Shields-Gadson said in the school’s announcement.
The Hornets, who had five top-three finishes this season in tournaments, were ranked 16th nationally in the most recent National Tenpin Coaches Association Division I Top 25 and 20th in the NCAA Ratings Percentage Index.
