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Family, friends honor soccer star Katie Meyer at memorial

Girls hug, mourning the loss of Stanford student Katie Meyer, in photo, during her memorial at Newbury High School in Thousand Oaks, California, on Saturday, March 12, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — As a goalie, Katie Meyer threw her body into more than a thousand unflinching dives to make game-winning saves. She helped lead Stanford University to a 2019 NCAA championship with several late-game blocks, but before that she made numerous saves at Newbury Park High School in Ventura County.

On Saturday, in the last light of the day, several hundred people gathered on the soccer field to remember Meyer, who died earlier this month. She was 22.

“She was just the life of the party, but in a good way,” Eileen Belanger, Katie’s advisory teacher at Century Academy, said outside the memorial. Belanger’s voice cracked as she recalled writing a graduation speech about Meyer.

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