About 350 people packed the Whitfield Center at Charleston Southern on Monday to honor the life of Sharonda Singleton and to pray for her son, CSU baseball player Chris Singleton.
Sharonda Singleton, the girls’ track coach and speech pathologist at Goose Creek High School, was one of nine victims in the shooting last week at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The mother of three, she also was a minister at the historic church.
At the prayer service, CSU baseball coach Stuart Lake talked about “how special a person Chris’ mom was.”
“She was the parent you want to have in coaching,” Lake said. “Ms. Singleton represented everything I hope that me and my wife can be as a parent to our son. She was there, and Chris knew she was there. But she allowed him to grow, and as a freshman he went through some tough times on the baseball field.
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