![]() JMU Nation is a close community, and we grieve together. ![]() “Our thoughts are with her family her coaches, teammates and friends the rest of our department staff and student-athletes and the entire JMU community. We are grateful that Lauren has been part of our JMU Athletics community and will always consider her to be a Duke. She is a two-time first-team NFCA All-American and helped lead the Dukes to the 2019 Women’s College World Series. JMUs president and athletics director described her as a 'high-achieving member of the softball team. Claytor, who is from Richmond, Virginia, is a psychology major and has a 3.98 GPA. Lauren Bernett, a sophomore catcher at James Madison University, has died at the age of 20. “College athletics is great because of the people with whom we get to interact every day. Madison Claytor, a senior softball player at James Madison University, has been named the 2019 NFCA Division I Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The team last played on Sunday, which was also Bernetts banner game. She was named the CAA Player of the Week on Monday after leading JMU with seven RBIs in their three-game sweep of Drexel over the weekend. James Madison Universitys women softball team, also known as The Dukes, have a. Bernett, a 20-year-old sophomore catcher with the Dukes, died by. She had continued that strong play through the 41 games she played this season, batting. James Madison University announced Monday it canceled the remainder of the softball season after the death of Lauren Bernett. The sophomore was the starting catcher during JMU’s unlikely and thrilling Women’s College World Series run last season. “She was a key member of our 2021 Women’s College World Series team as a freshman catcher last year.” Lauren Bernett was a high-achieving member of our softball team and a great ambassador of JMU and our athletics program,” JMU president Jonathan Alger said in a statement. Madison was a sickly and slightly built man who stood just 5 feet 4 inches tall and rarely tipped the scales at much more than 100 pounds. “Our hearts are aching, hearing the news of the loss of one of our student-athletes. Madison catcher Lauren Bernett has died, the school announced Tuesday.
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