Utah High School Band Sweeps Awards After Deadly Bus Crash
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Days after a bus crash that killed one of their teachers, students in the American Fork High School marching band swept the awards in a competition at Brigham Young University.
The school band issued a statement in remembrance of Heather Christensen. The 33-year old woodwinds instructor grabbed for the wheel when she noticed the bus driver had passed out on the trip home from a competition in Idaho on Saturday.
Christensen died when the bus crashed, but all of the students survived.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The band went ahead and played as scheduled in the competition Tuesday at BYU and won.
The students received a long standing ovation as they marched off the field and embraced in tearful hugs.