NORTH FLORIDA STAR GOLFER HUBER, SISTER, FATHER DIE IN PLANE CRASH

                  TESS HUBER ... Had made great start to 2013-14 US college golf season

FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
By JULIE WILLIAMS
North Florida University golfer Tess Huber was killed in a small-plane crash on Sunday in Jacksonville, Florida. 
Huber, 20, was travelling with her father Michael, 60, and younger sister Abigail, 17. All were confirmed dead by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board now are investigating the crash, which took place Sunday at about 6:20 pm local time.
In a press conference that evening, public information officer Melissa Bujeda identified the plane as a Cessna 310. It crashed into a retention pond near a subdivision just east of I-295 in Jacksonville, and remained there as a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office dive team recovered the bodies of all three passengers.
Bujeda said the pilot had been unable to see the runway at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport, and was told to fly around. The control tower was informed that the plane had lost altitude, and calls of the crash began coming in shortly after.
“We know it crashed into the retention pond, and we’re very fortunate it did not hit any homes because there could have been a lot more fatalities than we are talking about right now,” Bujeda told media. She said visibility was at about three miles at the time of the crash.
The North Florida women’s golf team began competing as a varsity sport in the fall of 2012, and Huber was the Ospreys’ leading scorer in the first half of the 2013-2014 college golf season. 
She had two top-10 finishes, and her third-place finish at the season-ending JU Classic earned her Atlantic Sun Player of the Week honors. Huber became the first Osprey women’s golfer to earn the distinction.
News of Huber’s death filtered around the college golf community as North Florida’s inaugural golf fundraiser at Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville went on.
A picture of Huber, mid-swing, appeared Monday on the North Florida women’s golf Facebook page. The caption read, “Today is a sad day for the Osprey Golf Program. Our prayers and thoughts go out to the Huber Family. Tess will be deeply missed.”
Head women’s golf coach Joanne Steele was not immediately available to Golfweek. She told the Florida Times-Union that Huber had aspirations of playing professionally someday.
“Tess brought this special spark to the team,” Steele told the Times-Union. “She had this calmness about her and she had this drive, this inner drive and desire to be the best for herself and best for the team.”
Abigail Huber also was an accomplished golfer, and the sisters had played together at Lincoln Park Academy in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Abigail was a senior there. Michael was a dentist in the Port St. Lucie area.