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There will never again be a number 22 on the West Wendover Girl’s basketball team.
In what is sure to be a poignant ceremony this week, Mickey Costanzo’s number will be retired as tribute to the young girl so cruelly murdered this March.
“The students and her coaches thought it was the right thing to do,” said West Wendover High School Principal Terry Carsrud. “We think it will be a fitting tribute. We are also retiring her track uniform.”
While not numbered all track uniforms are handed down from year to year until they are replaced. Mickey Costanzo’s togs as well as her basketball jersey will now hold a place of honor forever at the school.
Founded in 1996 the school has never retired a number of any athlete in its history.
*From left to right: Tyler Petersen,Trinity Smith, Miranda Roland, Tiffany Rasmussen, Jacquee Giovo, Cassandra Roland, Sadie Brooke
The ceremony took at the traditional final assembly of year. In addition to the retirement of her jerseys the school’s annual “Spirit Award” has been named in her honor.
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In a related development the school will enforce the policy of banning news trucks from the parking lot during graduation itself.
“We will do just like we did in March,” Carsrud said. “If TV news crews want to show we can’t stop them. But they will have to park on the street and not the parking lot.”
Several television crews from Salt Lake, Elko and Reno have expressed interest in covering the WWHS graduation as a follow-up piece to the murder story.
