When someone plays for a team, they play for more than themselves. They play for their family, friends, community, school and more importantly, for one another.
Every year, the Marshall University softball team says goodbye to its seniors as they move on to new chapters in their lives and welcomes in new players to the program who are eager to begin their collegiate careers.
As players come and go, one player still resonates with the team – Emileigh Jo Cooper.
On Feb. 5, the Huntington community lost a daughter of Marshall. Cooper, a 2015 Marshall University graduate and Marshall softball alumnae, lost her life at the age of 22 due to injuries sustained in a car accident just outside her hometown of Jackson, Ohio.