Yeardley Love

It is a scene that plays out in Maryland families every year: children learning lacrosse at the hand of a guiding parent. At the age of 5, Yeardley Love picked up her first lacrosse stick and began playing with her father. At 6, she joined a team through Cockeysville Rec. At 9 years old, she knew she wanted to go to the University of Virginia and play lacrosse there. Years later, her dream would come true. But last week, Love's other childhood dreams were cut short. At the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore, more than 2,000 people gathered Saturday to mourn Love, a 22-year-old senior and Cockeysville native who was slain in her off-campus apartment on Monday in Charlottesville, Va. An ex-boyfriend and Virginia men's lacrosse player, George Huguely, 22, of Chevy Chase, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in her slaying.

Kelly, Crane among finalists for Yeardley Love Unsung Hero Award North Carolina junior midfielder Frankie Kelly (Calvert Hall) and Loyola freshman defenseman Jason Crane (Chesapeake-Anne Arundel), North Carolina junior defender Zoe Skinner (Towson High) and Notre Dame junior defender Molly Shawhan , who lives in Fulton, are among the 10 finalists for the Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award. Established in 2011 in honor of the late Virginia player, a Cockeysville native, the award recognizes the selfless acts of initiative and commitment by Division I lacrosse players.

Katherine Williams, a second-year student at the University of Virginia, never had the opportunity to meet Yeardley Love. But like other students who arrived on campus after Love's death in May 2010, Williams lives with her legacy. "I took a class on women's health," Williams, 20, said, "and we discussed what happened here. " What happened was Love's murder at the hands of her one-time boyfriend, George Huguely. He was convicted last week during a trial in which testimony characterized him as an out-of-control drinker who had previously physically attacked and threatened her. He faces up to 26 years in prison.

Jackie LaMonica remembers how emotional it felt when she and her Towson women's lacrosse teammates played Virginia in the Cavaliers' first game after their teammate Yeardley Love had been murdered by her ex-boyfriend. The only current Tigers player in Charlottesville that day, LaMonica still carries the impression with her three years later, so she is a big proponent of the Tigers' upcoming “One Love Weekend” to promote relationship violence awareness and sexual assault prevention.

Notre Dame Preparatory School is holding Orioles Night at Camden Yards on Oct. 1 to raise money to build a turf field at the school in honor of alumna Yeardley Love, who was killed last spring at the University of Virginia. Love played lacrosse at both Notre Dame and Virginia. Tickets are $15 and must be purchased in advance in order for proceeds to benefit the Yeardley Reynolds Love Field. Go to notredameprep.com for orders. liz.bowie@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Police in Charlottesville are seeking e-mails and text messages a University of Virginia lacrosse player sent to another student he is accused of killing. The Daily Progress reported Thursday that police have requested a search of George Huguely's smart phone for correspondence mentioning Yeardley Love, who was also a lacrosse player at U.Va. The request was contained in an affidavit related to a search warrant. Huguely, of Potomac, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend.

Regarding the recent Senate renewal of the Violence Against Women Act ("Showdowns loom on Capitol Hill," April 26), it's important to remember the tragic life and death of Yeardley Love, who was left battered, bruised and bleeding alone in her room by an abusive ex-boyfriend. I went to the same high school as Yeardley. Notre Dame Preparatory School. We wore the same uniform, walked the same halls, wore the same ring and experienced everything else NDP had to offer. Although I didn't know her personally, I still feel connected to her. What happened to her could easily have happened to me or any other NDP girl.

Lawyers for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted in the beating death of his ex-girlfriend have asked a judge for a hearing on a motion to have the case retried. George Huguely and his lawyers appeared in Charlottesville Circuit Court on Friday on a separate motion filed on behalf of several media outlets seeking to have the trial's evidence made public. Judge Edward Hogshire gave media attorney Robert Yates two weeks to come up with a proposal on the best way to make the evidence available.

— On the field of her dreams, Yeardley Love will remain No. 1 forever. The Cockeysville native's uniform number was retired Sunday at the University of Virginia, where teammates, relatives, friends and fans gathered in the rain to present her mother and sister with a commemorative jersey and to raise a flag bearing her name and number, 1, at her beloved lacrosse field. Love was killed 10 months ago in a crime that still resonates on this storied campus, where the 22-year-old had fulfilled her childhood dream of playing for the perennial lacrosse powerhouse.

The family of Yeardley Love, the Cockeysville native and University of Virginia lacrosse player who was killed last spring, has created a foundation in her memory. The Yeardley Reynolds Love Foundation Inc., also known as the One Love Foundation, is initially working to memorialize the scholar-athlete with the construction of the Yeardley Reynolds Love Turf Field at her alma mater, Notre Dame Preparatory in Towson, and with the creation of a scholarship in her name. The field will cost about $1 million to build and maintain and will replace a regulation playing field on the campus.

George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted last year of drunkenly beating to death his girlfriend Yeardley Love, has asked the Virginia Court of Appeals to review his case. Huguely's attorneys argued in a petition filed Tuesday that the court violated Huguely's constitutional rights. Love, the victim, was from Cockeysville. "The circuit court's response to the intense media interest was to rush through the trial, rather than to ensure that the accused received a fair trial," Craig S. Cooley and Paul D. Clement, the attorneys, wrote in the petition.

Attorneys for George W. Huguely V are appealing his second-degree murder conviction for beating his ex-girlfriend to death in May 2010. Huguely, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player from Chevy Chase, was convicted in February and sentenced in August to 23 years in prison for the death of Yeardley Love, 22, of Cockeysville. A notice of appeal was filed Tuesday in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, but it does not lay out the grounds for the challenge. Before the sentencing, Huguely's legal team had asked the judge to overturn the verdict, arguing that the trial had been unfair and that the jury received improper instructions.

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There is Chris Brown, these days sporting a neck tattoo that looks like ex-girlfriend Rihanna after he bloodied and bruised her. And Charlie Sheen, whose assault of his wife is somehow just another part of his troubled yet comedic persona. Sharon Love is just warming up on the issue of relationship violence. Normally soft-spoken, and by nature a sunny personality, Love grows outraged as the subject takes her from feckless celebrities to the anonymous victims sheltered by such groups as Baltimore's House of Ruth "They're hiding from these men. They're the ones hiding, and these men are running free," she says.

Sharon and Lexie Love, mother and sister of Yeardley Love, who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend, will be interviewed Thursday on "Katie," the new syndicated show hosted by former CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric. The program will focus on dating violence, with the interview of Sharon and Lexie Love described as the "centerpiece" of the hour. "Katie" debuted Sept. 10 to impressive ratings, topping all other new daytime syndicated talk shows. The test will be whether or not Couric can hold onto the audience that tuned in to check out the big-name newcomer.

On a day filled with sunshine, music and poetry, the prep school Yeardley Love attended reclaimed her name from the tragic headlines and put it back where she spent some of her happiest days: on a playing field. "Sports brought out so many of her memorable characteristics - her fun-loving personality, dedication, loyalty and compassion for others," Lexie Love said Sunday at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, where a new turf field was dedicated to her sister. "I'm sure she's looking down on her field now with a big smile on her face and looking forward to seeing the many games played on it. " Several hundred people attended the dedication of the $1.2 million Yeardley Love Field, named for the Notre Dame Prep alum who was murdered in May 2010, just weeks before she would graduate from the University of Virginia.

The big news on Tuesday was the guilty plea from Barry H. Landau, who admitted in federal court to pilfering thousands of historic documents from Baltimore and four other states. He and his accomplice were caught last year when an alert part-time, and suspicious, librarian hid on a balcony and spotted one of them hiding a document. Read the story here . View a photo gallery of Landau walking into court and of documents taken from the Maryland Historical Society.

George Huguely is guilty of murder. He went to the apartment of his on-again, off-again girlfriend, University of Virginia classmate Yeardley Love and, in a drunken rage, broke through her door, confronted her about infidelity, grabbed her, shook her, beat her and left her bruised and bloody. A jury in Charlottesville, Va., concluded that the killing was not premeditated, but jurors were not willing to accept the defense argument that it was an accident, or excused in any way by the 15 or more drinks Mr. Huguely had consumed that day. Jurors recommended that he be sent to prison for 26 years, longer than his life so far. That sentence may offer justice, but it brings no restitution.

George W. Huguely V's lawyers have asked a Charlottesville circuit court judge to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether prosecutors in his murder trial withheld exculpatory evidence. A proceeding to consider the request is set for July 31. Huguely, 24, was convicted of second degree murder this winter in the alcohol-fueled beating death of his University of Virginia girlfriend, Yeardley Love, who was from Cockeysville. The former lacrosse player is scheduled for sentencing Aug. 30. His lawyers have asked for a new trial, claiming in court papers filed Monday that Commonwealth Attorney Warner “Dave” Chapman did not disclose imminent plans by Love's family to file a $30.5 million lawsuit against Huguely.