‘Feels like a nightmare’: Grovetown High School soccer team honors teammate who drowned

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Grovetown High School students honored Elijah Lemeuble after he died Saturday night when he drowned at Wildwood Park.

The school’s soccer team held a dedication to Elijah before the girls’ game.

Teammates said Elijah had been part of their soccer family for years. One teammate said he played club soccer with Elijah locally at Bulls before they switched to South Carolina United in Columbia.

Another teammate said he and Elijah had been playing soccer together for almost 10 years. A third said he had known Elijah since he was 5 or 6 years old, going to school together through elementary, middle and high school.

Teammates remember Elijah

One teammate described the loss as feeling incomplete.

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“When I look up to pass to Elijah when he’s in the midfield with me, like I won’t have that anymore,” he said. “I still feel like there’s a hole in me like missing. A part of me was Elijah. And like the same thing, part of me is them. Like these are my brothers that I played for so long, and so I just — I’m just in disbelief. It feels like a nightmare that I haven’t woken up from.”

The team said each game will be a way to remember Elijah and carry him with them.

“I feel like us going into college and with Elijah also being committed to go play in college, I feel like we’ll take that with us and we’ll score some goals for Elijah if we can,” one teammate said.

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Teammates remembered not only the kind of player he was, but who he was as a person.

“Elijah had to get a connection with a lot of people,” one teammate said. “Even if he didn’t, people always had a connection with him. He was always talking to somebody.”

One teammate said the experience taught him not to take a day for granted.

“I guess I was in shock. It didn’t really click to me that he was gone,” he said. “But now that I’ve been, like settling in, it’s — he taught me this experience taught me to not take a day for granted and to keep doing that. I have to keep going and doing what he wants me to do because he wants us all to succeed and to keep doing what we got to do.”