The NBAC Family is saddened by the news of the death of one of our alumni, Joseph F. Curreri, a sergeant in the US Army. Joey, along with his sister Shannon, swam for NBAC for many years, setting multiple team and Maryland Swimming Records. Joe graduated from Loyola Blakefield in 1998 and was a four year letterman and team captain for the University of Southern California Trojans.
Joe joined the United
States Army in 2004 and
was serving in his first
deployment in the
Philippines at the time
of his death. After
joining the Army, Joe
went first to airborne
training, then Special
Forces training at Fort
Bragg, N.C. He was a
communications sergeant
assigned to the 2nd
Battalion, 1st
Special Forces Group at
Fort Lewis, Washington.
His death was an
accidental drowning
according to the Army.
Joe is survived by his wife, Athena, of Los Angeles, California; his mother and sister, Karen Curreri and Shannon Curreri, of Redondo Beach, California; his father Frank Curreri, his stepmother, Tricia and step sister, Angelia, all of Baltimore. Arrangements are pending.
Memorial contributions
in Joe's memory maybe
made to
The Special
Operations Warrior
Foundation.
The Special Operations
Warrior Foundation (SOWF)
provides free
collegescholarship
grants, along with
financial aid and
educational counseling,
to the children of Army,
Navy, Air Force and
Marine Corps Special
Operations personnel who
were killed in an
operational mission or
training accident.
http://www.specialops.org/