GOODMAN, Miss. (WJTV) – The Holmes Community College family in Goodman came together to memorialize Coach Brooke Walker during Thursday night’s basketball game.

Walker, an assistant women’s basketball coach at the college, died on Sunday during a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Madison County.

Shades of purple could be seen among the crowd on Thursday, along with purple ribbons worn in Walker’s honor. She was known as Coach B. and was recognized right before the basketball game.

“There’s all kinds of tragedies that happen in our lives, and probably the most influential people that we get in their lives. If you’re an athlete, it’s your parents and your coaches, and they spend 20-25 hours a week with them all the way for the next four, 36 weeks during the school year. So, it becomes such a family. And so when you lose somebody like that in a tragedy, it’s very hard on those girls and the coach. And obviously, without a doubt her family, because she’s only 26 years old, and there’s never a good time to lose somebody in a car accident. But being that she was so young, it is extremely tragic, and we’re going to miss her. There’s no doubt about it. She was a light,” said Andy Wood, the director of Athletics for Holmes Community College and vice president of the Goodman Campus.

The college’s athletic family said they will continue to keep Walker’s light alive and honor her legacy in the games they play.