The Elkview community and the Braxton County girls soccer team is mourning the death of a Herbert Hoover High School student who was killed in a car accident last Wednesday night. The crash occurred following the Braxton/Herbert Hoover soccer match which the Huskies won by a score of 8-1.
Girls soccer coach Michael Strickland and his daughter, Leah, a ninth-grade student at the Herbert Hoover, were driving home from a soccer game when the accident occurred. The teenager later died from her injuries at a Charleston Area medical facility.
“Leah, your amazing . . .
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