Wiregrass Ranch football team honors Ulrich Family

Posted Sep 3, 2010 by Eddie Daniels

Updated Sep 3, 2010 at 02:03 PM

When the Wiregrass Ranch football team hits the field tonight – and for the rest of the season for that matter – they will do so honoring the memory of a fallen schoolmate and her family.

On June 11, during a family trip west in an single-engine plane, 15-year-old Alexa “Lexi” Ulrich, a student at Wiregrass, along with her sister, Carlie, 5, and their parents Jeffrey, 50, and Ronni, 47, died when their plane, piloted by Jeffrey Ulrich, crashed into a high school in Eagar, Ariz.

Jeffrey Ulrich had more than two decades of experience as a pilot.

Tonight, the Bulls football team will hold a moment of silence prior to kickoff and will sport a decal on the back of each helmet that reads: “Ulrich Family.”

“It’s just something we wanted to do to honor the family,” Wiregrass football coach Jeremy Shobe said Friday, “because she meant so much to the student body. We can be the ones to wear that symbol with pride this season.”

Shobe said principal Ray Bonti contacted the family to get approval and they were more than happy to give their blessings.