A 19-year-old man drowned Wednesday while swimming with relatives at Lake Afton.
Rescue workers pulled the man's body from the lake at 4:25 p.m. about 100 yards from the shore.
Witnesses said the man was chasing a soccer ball before he went under.
Sedgwick County Fire Division Chief Terry Mauldin said that when wind pushed the ball farther from shore, the man followed it into deeper water.
While chasing the ball, Mauldin said, the man apparently experienced a cramp or simply grew tired.
"For whatever reason, he went under," he said
The victim's name was not immediately released.
Emergency dispatchers said the man's relatives alerted authorities at 3:10 p.m., and the first rescue crews were at the scene 10 minutes later.
As boats and divers searched the water, Sedgwick County sheriff's deputies scoured the grounds around the lake but found no sign of the man.
Mauldin said a rescue crew eventually found the body using a depth finder that was aboard a private boat that was helping with the search.
The Lake Afton accident marks the fifth time this summer that someone has drowned in Sedgwick County.
* On June 7, a 4-year-old boy died a day after being pulled from the bottom of an apartment complex swimming pool in west Wichita.
* On June 9, a 36-year-old Wichita woman drowned in a pool behind her home in the 10200 block of Alamo Court in west Wichita.
* On June 14, a 5-year-old girl died two days after she was found in an above-ground pool during a family gathering at a residence about five miles east of Sedgwick.
* On June 30, a 3-year-old boy drowned in a lake at the Southlake Village Apartments, 4141 S. Seneca.
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