The University of Guelph said Monday that both the woman killed and man who is missing after a kayaking tragedy in the Credit River on Sunday were both students at the institution.

According to a campus bulletin post by university, the deceased woman is Kaya Firth, a third-year English student. The university has also identified the male kayaker as her boyfriend, Zach Sutherland, a fourth-year commerce major. Police, however, have not confirmed the names nor revealed any information on the kayakers’ relationship.

The OPP’s Underwater Search and Recovery Unit continue to search for the male kayaker after the woman’s body was recovered from river on Sunday afternoon. Emergency crews had arrived on the scene around 2:50 p.m., after receiving a complaint about two empty kayaks stuck in the middle of the river, near the Caledon-Halton Hills border.

Officers told the public Monday only that the two kayakers were in their 20s, were from the area and were known to each other.

“We are deeply saddened by this news,” said University of Guelph president Franco Vaccarino. “Our hearts and thoughts go out to the friends and families of these two vibrant young people.”

The university will be lowering their campus flags to half-staff in honour of the “two students involved with a kayaking incident.”

“Basic safety practices such as learning to swim at an early age, wearing a life-jacket or a Personal Flotation Device (PFD) while on a vessel or in water; adult supervision of children while swimming; and not drinking and boating can make the difference between surviving, or not,” the OPP wrote in a statement.