Joe Ehrmann Essay on UVA Lacrosse

Coach For America Founder Joe Ehrmann, who starred in the NFL and as a PCA National Advisory Board Member now stars in PCA's new online courses, has given PCA Connector a stirring essay on the death of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love. The essay starts below and links into the PCA Youth Sports Spotlight blog, where you can read the full essay and comment to Joe and the whole PCA community.

One Team-One Heart-One Love=One Movement

I went to Yeardley Love's funeral with my twenty-two year old son. Yeardley, a University of Virginia lacrosse player, was murdered early this month apparently at the hands of a former boyfriend. My son, a college lacrosse player, was friends with Yeardley, her accused murderer, and many of the men and women on the UVA lacrosse teams. Sitting next to him, I could feel and see him trying to process the conflicted emotions surrounding the enormity of this tragedy, compounded by knowing both the victim and the victimizer. The young men sitting around me sobbed and sniffled. At one point in the ceremony I turned to an emotionally distraught young man and asked him if I could give him a hug.

Click here to continue reading at the Youth Sports Spotlight blog.