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Virginia Soccer Player Allison Rivera Dies
Allison Rivera made the girls around her better.
On the soccer field, the Northern Virginia student-athlete was the fierce midfielder wearing No. 8. Off it, she was a friend and classmate to students at Smart's Mill Middle School in Leesburg.
Rivera, a member of the Northern Virginia Alliance Under-14 Girls Academy team, died this week, prompting an outpouring of support from the soccer community. For some of Rivera's teammates, the bond stretched back years.
One soccer parent, Jason Moore, said his daughter, London, had shared the field with Rivera for the past seven years.
“Fierce …
Veteran, Championship Coach Brian Parham, UMD Fixture, Dies At 57 After Sudden Diagnosis
For more than 25 years, Brian Patrick Parham was one of the people quietly looking out for others. Then everything changed in a matter of weeks.
The Maryland military veteran, championship coach, husband and father from Waldorf died on Wednesday, Sept. 23, following what the University of Maryland Police Department described as a "very brief but courageous battle" with a recently diagnosed illness.
Parham was 57.
His father-in-law, Michael McNair, said Parham died from cancer, leaving behind his wife, Traci, and children who knew him far differently than the thousands of people who crossed…
