Authorities are investigating the death of a Nashville swimmer who was visiting Florida with family.
Sarasota County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Wendy Rose said in an email late Sunday that 21-year-old Tate Ramsden drowned in the outside swimming pool at a Sarasota YMCA on Saturday afternoon.
He was a student at Dartmouth College.
The report from Sarasota Deputies provides some heartbreaking insight into how the star swimmer died.
Ramsden swam for Dartmouth on a scholarship as a freshman and sophomore. He was scheduled to graduate in 2017.
"He was a very intelligent kid with a quirky sense of humor," Morse recalls.
Hanlon said Ramsden was visiting Sarasota with family. He wrote that school officials have been in touch with Ramsden's family "to share our deepest sympathies with them at this time of heartbreaking loss."
The Nashville Aquatics Club also posted this messaged on their Facebook page.
It is with a very heavy heart that NAC acknowledges the passing of one of our finest, Tate Ramsden, who this year was a...
Posted by Nashville Aquatic Club on Monday, December 28, 2015
