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High School Athlete Raquel 'Rocky' Elardo, Of Loudoun County, Dies High School Athlete Raquel 'Rocky' Elardo, Of Loudoun County, Dies
High School Athlete Raquel 'Rocky' Elardo, Of Loudoun County, Dies The death of a Loudoun County high school athlete is sending shock and sadness through the community. Heritage High School grad and Leesburg resident Raquel "Rocky" Elardo, died on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, surrounded by her family, her obituary on the Loudoun Funeral Chapel & Crematory website shows. She was 18 years old. Rocky was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, after a collarbone injury suffered during a basketball game wasn't healing, according to a GoFundMe launched for the Elardos. As it turns out, a tumor was pressing on the bone. Despite her diagnosis, Rocky showed up to nearly eve…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach
Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Corey Sargent was set to become the first Old Dominion University student to receive a PhD in astrophysics. On June 11, the 25-year-old's life was cut short in Newport News, when a reckless driver killed him in a rear end collision, according to a GoFundMe page started in his honor. The Virginia Beach native had already received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from ODU, but was still not satisfied.  "Everything was a competition: baseball, kayaking, hiking, even school where he won nearly every award possible from the ODU Physics Department." A friend of Sargent's family recal…

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by AJ Goldbloom