Austin Hwang, a popular former Irvine High School varsity football player who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, has died, according to Irvine football coach Erik Terry.
“It is with great sadness that I let you know Austin has passed away,” Terry said in an email to the Register early Friday morning, April 14. “I just received the news.”
Terry confirmed in a phone interview that Hwang, 19, died either early this morning or late Thursday night in La Mirada surrounded by his family and the family’s pastor, who along with another pastor and Hwang’s mother had been taking care of Hwang.