Hyeongsoon Kang and her husband, Youngche Ki, are scheduled to fly home today to Anyang, South Korea, after a week in Harrisonburg, an unscheduled trip after the death of Doyeon Ki, their 21-year-old daughter.

Ki was killed Jan. 1 on Va. 42 as she was walking back to the home of Jeongih Han, her host who lived just north of the city.

Since childhood, Ki had dreams of becoming a nurse, sometimes poking toys as if she were injecting them with needles, her mother said. She was set to enroll this week in 91¶ĚĘÓƵ’s before pursuing a degree at the school.

Ki arrived in the United States on Dec. 23.

Thanks to Harrisonburg resident Philip Yoder, her presence will stay.

“I’m from this community. It hurts when a tragedy like this happens. This could have been my sister. It could have been my friend. It breaks my heart,” he said through tears Thursday.

Yoder, 21, is a junior at 91¶ĚĘÓƵ whose family’s home on Sharon Lane is near where Ki was killed. “Deeply moved” by what happened, he said, he built a 4-foot cross with Ki’s name on it and placed it Thursday afternoon at the site — 20 feet off the road and in front of Kreider Four Seasons Equipment Inc. at 1880 Harpine Highway — with about 40 people present, including the woman’s parents.

“It’s just so real,” Yoder said.

Virginia State Police Sgt. F.L. Tyler said he had no new information on the crash Thursday. Last week, police said multiple vehicles, including a Broadway rescue squad unit returning to its station, struck Ki as she was in the right lane of northbound traffic near Hamlet Drive, just north of the city’s Harmony Square shopping center.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. It’s unclear why Ki was in the roadway — there are no sidewalks in that vicinity — and not immediately known where she was returning home from, but attendees at Thursday’s ceremony attribute her unfamiliarity with the area to the incident.

Yoder said drivers could be more aware, too.

“We can drive slower here. We can do something. We can have [street] lights,” he said. “It’s not right.”

During Thursday’s ceremony, people placed flowers under the cross. Kang spent several minutes on her knees, overcome with emotion.

It was a final release while in the city, but she’s not leaving filled with sadness.

“[At first] I really just complained to God about it happening,” Kang said through an interpreter, James Rhee, the pastor at Park View Korean Church. “When I came here … I thought we might have three people at the funeral service. So many people came over and they really heartfully took care of my family and that’s inspiring. … My anger and discouragement scaled down and down and down.”

Yoder played a major role in that reversal.

“I’m watching my son discover that this community has a huge heart and really does care when there are tragedies,” said Elwood Yoder, the 91¶ĚĘÓƵ student’s father.

And the younger Yoder isn’t the only one to make that observation.

“I really want to express my deep appreciation to the Harrisonburg community and the 91¶ĚĘÓƵ community. Many times, many times,” Kang said.

Article courtesy of the Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, Va.), Jan. 10, 2014

Junior Katie Lamm scored her team leading third goal of the season against Frostburg State. (Courtesy Wayne Gehman)

Jen Edris’ place as the second-leading scorer in 91¶ĚĘÓƵ women’s soccer history is more than a little fleeting and she knows it.

All it’s going to take is one goal, or even two assists, by junior Katie Lamm sometime between now and the end of the 2008 season for Edris – who is in the 91¶ĚĘÓƵ record books under her maiden name, Jennifer Morey – to fall back to third.

But don’t go anointing Lamm as No. 2 in Edris’ presence just yet.

“He-hem, third,” Edris, now an assistant coach at 91¶ĚĘÓƵ, jokingly bristled after practice last Thursday when a reporter suggested that Lamm was already second on the list. “I was just telling her, I don’t know why anyone would want to interview you. You’re not even in the top two in all-time scoring.”

“We’ll change that tomorrow,” Lamm shot back in a half-hearted attempt to feign cockiness, a personality trait she doesn’t appear to possess.

Surprisingly, she was wrong, and Edris’ mark survived the weekend. On Friday, Lamm was shut out for the first time this season in a 2-0 loss to Roanoke, and Sunday she failed to score again in the Royals’ scoreless tie with Goshen College in Lancaster, Pa.

That allows Edris to stay No. 2 at least until Saturday, when the Royals (3-2-1) play at Old Dominion Athletic Conference rival Lynchburg, but it’s hard to believe she’ll get to enjoy it much longer than that. Only once in Lamm’s 91¶ĚĘÓƵ career – in the final three games of last season – has she suffered through a scoring drought longer than two games.

Several Records in Sight

With seven goals this season, Lamm has a career total of 41, which is already good for second all-time behind only 2004 graduate Ellie Lind, who finished with 76. Lamm’s 86 total points are surpassed only by Edris’ 87 and Lind’s 183.

The points record is probably out of reach. Lamm isn’t piling up assists with quite as high a frequency as she is goals – she has four in her career – and Lind finished with a school-record 31. But the forward from Newmanstown, Pa., is nearly on pace to score more goals than anyone in the history of the Park View school.

“It’s a goal I think she’s set for herself,” coach Holly Shifflett said. “There’s no doubt in my mind she’ll be able to do it.”

Shifflett feels so strongly about Lamm’s chances because the former East Lebanon County High School star has already overcome several obstacles that could’ve derailed her pursuit.

Injuries Not an Obstacle

After scoring 15 goals as a freshman and earning ODAC Rookie of the Year honors, Lamm grinded through injuries as a sophomore. In one of the season’s first practices, she collided with assistant coach Jonathan Kratz – who was playing to give the Royals enough for an 11-on-11 scrimmage – and sprained the medial collateral ligament in her right knee, an injury that still forces her to wear a bulky knee brace.

Later that season Lamm suffered a sprained right ankle, forcing her to tape her right leg nearly from thigh to foot.

“Trainers loved me,” said Lamm, a health and physical education major who also works in the athletic trainer’s office and is thinking about pursuing a master’s degree in athletic training. “They had to buy a whole extra box of tape just to deal with me.”

And in addition to being hampered by physical ailments, she had to deal with opponents doing everything in their power to slow her down. Sometimes she faces double and even triple teams, but that still didn’t keep her from scoring 19 goals, good for third in the ODAC, and earning first-team all-conference honors.

“I don’t think about it,” Lamm said of getting marked. “People say,