Canada basketball’s Paige Crozon playing Down Under for her Humboldt home
GOLD COAST, Australia — Paige Crozon is wearing Canada on her jersey at the Commonwealth Games, but she is now playing for Humboldt.
Basketball has taken the 23-year-old to the University of Utah, a pro team in Germany (Saarlouis Royals) and now the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. But she was born and raised in Humboldt, Sask., and is hurting in the wake of the horrific bus crash involving the Broncos hockey team that left 15 dead and 14 injured.
“The last few days have been very hard,” Crozon said in an interview Monday. “We’ve had a very close family friend that lost his life in the accident. So it’s been a sad couple of days but I can’t even begin to imagine what those families are going through and what everyone else is going through back at home.”
Crozon used to baby-sit one of the players who died in the crash. Out of respect for his family, she declined to say who.