C. Milton Wright High School officials have canceled all after-school activities at the Bel Air school, including tonight’s football and volleyball games, as the community reels from an afternoon crash Thursday that killed one student and seriously injured another.

The crash, which involved two cars plus a Harford County school bus, happened near the school on Route 543 in Bel Air. Neither police nor school system officials will release the names of the teens involved in the crash, since they are juveniles, but online posts from multiple community members have identified Blake Elliott, 16, a junior at C. Milton Wright High School, as the student who died in the crash.

Elliott was a standout soccer player at the school who was named The Aegis’ girls soccer Player of the Week last week for tallying six goals through the team’s first five games, scoring at least once in each contest.

Principal Bryan Pawlicki sent the following message to the C. Milton Wright High School community: “As many of you know, our school community suffered a tragic loss last night with the passing of one of our students. Another student from our school is currently being treated for serious injuries at the hospital.  I am very proud of the way our students came together this morning to support one another.”

Pawlicki said the football game was rescheduled to Monday and other rescheduled activities would be announced later.

Area businesses, sports organizations and others in the Bel Air and sports communities posted condolences on social media, including creating images of support ribbons in C. Milton’s black-and-light-blue school colors.

Bel Air High School’s girls’ volleyball team posted an image of a sympathetic bobcat sitting with a crying mustang, and wrote: “Bobcat Nation stands in solidarity with C.Milton Wright during this challenging time.”

Elliott and the Mustangs reached the Class 2A state championship soccer game last fall, where they fell to Queen Anne’s. But coach Andrew Harrell was confident his group of players set to return this season, including Elliott, would help them get back to that stage: “We brought a lot of younger players along this journey, so they now have the experience,” he said after the game. “We’ll go back to the grindstone. We’ll figure it out. We’ll be back.”

Last fall was similarly a difficult season for the C. Milton Wright boys and girls soccer programs. Evan Snyder, who died in 2023, would have been a senior on the boys team that also reached the state championship game a year ago. The programs kept Snyder with them throughout their impressive seasons — players wore bracelets with Evan’s name on them, clapped in unison at the 20-minute mark (Snyder’s jersey number) of every game, celebrated at the 20-yard line after goals and stitched a patch that read ES20 on their jerseys.

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