A college swimmer from upstate New York drowned during lifeguard tryouts over the weekend, authorities said.
Jack Jakubek, 22, had just graduated from college and was trying out for a summer lifeguarding job on Nauset Beach in Cape Cod when the tragic accident occurred, officials said.
Jakubek of Newburgh had held the same lifeguard position previously in Orleans, Mass.
He was pulled from the Pilgrim Lake surf by rescue crews around 9:30 a.m. and later pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital.
His death is currently under investigation by state and local authorities.
Jakubek graduated from the State University of New York at Cortland earlier this month and was planning to return to the school’s swim team as an assistant coach.
“He was the kind of person who figured out what he wanted out of life and went to get it,” his former swimming and diving coach Brian Tobin told The Cape Cod Times. “You don’t see a lot of guys in their early 20s who just know what they want so clearly.”
With Post wires