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2K Bid Farewell to 'Remarkable' Yeardley Love

Slain lacrosse player hailed for generosity, fierceness on the field

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted May 9, 2010 12:06 AM CDT

(Newser) – More than 2000 mourners crowded a Baltimore church yesterday for the funeral mass of 22-year-old Yeardley Love, and amid grief let up a University of Virginia sports chant she once memorably bungled. Instead of "One, two, three, together, Hoos," Love had counted to four—which the Charlottesville Daily Progress reports her lacrosse coach echoed in giving the eulogy for the UVa. student found beaten to death early Monday.

Lacrosse teammates, and friends from college and high school clogged the pews as Love was hailed as "truly remarkable," "legitimately awesome," and a focused youth who knew at age 9 she wanted to play lacrosse for UVa, reports the Baltimore Sun. The priest alluded to her accused murderer, George Huguely, saying, “At some point, we will have to forgive someone. Today may not be that day."

Mourners exit the Cathedral of Our Queen church at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love, 22, in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
Mourners exit the Cathedral of Our Queen church at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love, 22, in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Family and friends mourn at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
Family and friends mourn at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Mourners gather and embrace by the hearse at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love, 22, at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
Mourners gather and embrace by the hearse at the end of the funeral for Yeardley Love, 22, at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Young women comfort each other at the funeral for slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, 22, at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
Young women comfort each other at the funeral for slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, 22, at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The casket of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for the funeral in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
The casket of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for the funeral in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The casket of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
The casket of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The family of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love react as her casket is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.
The family of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love react as her casket is taken into the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, May 8, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Yeardley was the player who made everyone feel better. As genuine, kind and gentle as she was, she was also tough as nails on the lacrosse field. She played with the heart of a lion. - Lacrosse coach Julie Myers

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joe1148
May 9, 2010 9:42 PM CDT
You people are really a piece of work at times. Simply because she was not known by you or I, you act as though her fans and others in the world who did, do not want or do not have the right to see her eulogy, and to see her praised one last time for her dedication to the game she played, and her known generosity!
btwforever
May 9, 2010 7:34 PM CDT
Who? Yeardley Love? Is she famous? No? Is Newser publishing obits now? Where's the one to my Grandmother?
OnlyMyOpinionMatters
May 9, 2010 7:06 PM CDT
We get it - she was pretty, and rich, and white, and played lacrosse.

 
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