2 Students Awarded Hannah E. Graham Memorial Softball Scholarship

GREATER ALEXANDER, VA — The Hannah E. Graham Memorial Softball Scholarship Committee announced that Alana Yoder of West Potomac High School and Emilie Doty of Washington-Liberty High School have each been awarded a $1,000 scholarship.

“Congratulations to Alana Yoder and Emilie Doty for being awarded a memorial scholarship that
honors our daughter Hannah. Sue and I hope that as they go to college, these two young
women can help spread the word about violence against women, and about ways to increase
your safety,” said John Graham, speaking on behalf of himself and his wife, Sue.
Alana will be playing softball at Marymount University. Emilie will be pitching for Tufts
University.

In the short essays they wrote with their scholarship applications, the two young women
focused on education efforts to prevent violence against young women.

Hannah Graham played Ft. Hunt softball, Mount Vernon Magic travel softball, and West
Potomac High School softball and graduated from West Potomac in 2013. In September 2014,
at the beginning of her second year at the University of Virginia, Hannah was abducted and
murdered by a man she did not know.

The scholarship is the next step in a process to keep Hannah’s memory alive and further the
valuable work of working to help prevent violence against young women, scholarship organizers said.

This follows four years of an annual softball tournament fundraiser which donated money to designated charities related to this work. COVID forced the end of the annual softball tournament
fundraiser, so this scholarship program has taken its place.