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Penn State women’s basketball coach Carolyn Kieger joins run in memory of Ahmaud Arbery

Women’s basketball coach Carolyn Kieger ran 2.23 miles on Friday in honor of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot and killed while jogging on Feb. 23.

Today I run for you and continue to hope for a day where racism ends ud83dude4fud83cudffd#IrunwithMaud pic.twitter.com/n0gQR8mgz3

— Carolyn Kieger (@CoachKiegs) May 8, 2020

Kieger documented her run with the hashtag "#IRunWithMaud,” joining others who posted videos, photos, or tweets of themselves jogging in Arbery’s memory. May 8 would have been Arbery’s 26th birthday.

Arbery was killed while jogging in Satilla Shores, Georgia.