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Tufts Lacrosse Player Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest Tufts Lacrosse Player Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest
Tufts Lacrosse Player Dies In Hot Dog Eating Contest A college student from the Hudson Valley has died from injuries in a hot dog eating contest on Saturday, Oct. 16. Rockland County resident Madie Nicpon, a 2019 graduate of Suffern High School, was a junior at Tufts University in Massachusetts.  She fell unconscious during an off-campus charity fundraiser and died at a Boston hospital the following day, WCVB, ABC 5 in Boston reports. Nicpon was a biopsychology major and a member of the college's women’s lacrosse team. News of the tragedy was shared with the university community in a statement signed by Tufts' president, dean of studen…

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by Joe Lombardi