Last Updated on: 8th May 2023, 11:01 am
Sabrina Navaretta radiated an infectious smile and joie de vivre.
“She knew who she was and appreciated everything that was offered to her,” her mother, Mara Schweitzer-Navaretta, wrote on Facebook.
Her current age was 19 years.
According to the Newark Police Department, the 19-year-old from Woodbury, New York, was killed in a car crash near the UD campus on the night of April 28. Five other people were also injured in the accident.
“As we collectively mourn the loss of a classmate, know that we are all there for one another as a UD community,” UD President Dennis Assanis wrote in a university-wide email the day after Navaretta’s death.
He said the university is working to increase support for students, and representatives of student life have met with students at the Navaretta dorm as well as members of their sorority.
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On the evening of 28th April Navaretta was on her way home from Airband, a dance competition at the end of UD Greek Week, according to several UD students and parents who posted on Facebook.
She played Cinderella in the competition and “performed miracles,” said a woman who watched the performance.
Navaretta joined Phi Sigma Sigma this spring, where her sorority said she “had a lasting impact on (the) brotherhood and on the lives of (her) comrades.”
“His friendship and contagious spirit are sorely missed,” the sorority wrote on Instagram.
According to family friends, Navaretta enjoyed spending time on the water, especially on boats and jet skis. She was also close to her parents and “never had that adolescent attitude that you see so often.”
As a child, she was “a shrewd delight,” according to teachers and others who knew her from an early age. She played soccer when she was little and grew up to be a “beautiful” young woman, multiple social media users said.
He played volleyball in high school and learned to be a lifeguard. His mother said that she liked the course at Syosset High School. She also had two brothers.
Family and friends expressed their condolences and shared memories of them on social media.
Describing her as “pure light,” one woman described her as “always so kind and gentle with the brightest eyes and a bright, infectious smile.”
Another person described her as “real sunshine.”
Navaretta will be buried privately in Syosset, New York on Friday. His family arranged a visit to a funeral home in the same city on Thursday.
An obituary for UDaily is in the works, according to a UD spokesman. A memorial event on campus is also being discussed, but specific details are not yet known, the spokesman said.
