Posted on 04/26/2022 12:55:45 PM PDT by gunnut
Lauren Bernett, a former standout at South Fayette High School and a current star for the James Madison softball team, has passed away the school said Tuesday.
She was 20. No cause of death has been given.
The sophomore was the starting catch for James Madison each of the past two seasons, and was a key player for the Dukes in their run to the 2021 College World Series.
The news comes just one day after Bernett was named Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week.
“Our hearts are aching, hearing the news of the loss of one of our student-athletes,” James Madison President Jonathan Alger said in a message posted to the school’s softball website. “Lauren Bernett was a high-achieving member of our softball team and a great ambassador of JMU and our athletics program. She was a key member of our 2021 Women’s College World Series team as a freshman catcher last year.
“College athletics is great because of the people with whom we get to interact every day,” he added. “We are a tight family. We are grateful that Lauren has been part of our JMU Athletics community and will always consider her to be a Duke. We will miss her dearly.
“Our thoughts are with her family; her coaches, teammates and friends; the rest of our department staff and student-athletes; and the entire JMU community. JMU is a close community and we grieve together.”
It would have been worse if she wasn’t!
My wife and daughter are JMU alums
It was a suicide
Oh, suicide.
OK, so the vaccines are still good. What a relief.
Hmmm, thank God for Hearsay.
Very sad. So young. Any idea why ?
I take it that is the word on the alumni grapevine?
Very sad to hear. There is an incredible level of pressure on high achievers, much of it self inflicted.
It’s sickening. And we can’t get any truth from these scum.
At least one pediatrician’s office in Virginia, before signing off on youth sports participation for children who have subjected themselves to COVID vexxationation, are requiring baseline testing of cardiac and cardiopulmonary function. Probably a smart policy.
A track star at another school did the same a week or so ago. Don’t remember when or where.
She drove from Waynesboro to Harrisonburg for several years making me and my siblings latch-key kids. She got her degree the same year I graduated from Waynesboro High School.
No. Kids today are really into mental illness.
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