“Blue Out” held in memory of 5 nursing students killed in interstate crash

STATESBORO, GA – Just one week ago, Georgia Southern University was shocked to lose five nursing students in an accident on I-16.So on Wednesday, people across the Coastal Empire and the country wore blue to support the school and remember those young women.

It all started with a Facebook post that has now gotten more than 3,500 shares.

“I was actually really shocked because I didn’t expect it to get that far in that short of an amount of time,” said 19-year-old Sarah Hall who was the original poster. “We all love Georgia Southern and I feel like even though I’m not a student I’m still a part of the campus.”

Hall’s mother is a faculty member at the school and her father is a former football player, so the teen tells News 3 she grew up on and around Georgia Southern’s campus.

In her post she encouraged people to share pictures of themselves on social media with hashtags like #ShoweringStatesboroWithBlue, #FlyHighLikeEagles and #True Blue.