The family of one of the three victims of a car crash on Bainbridge Island is starting a memorial scholarship in her honor.

Early this week, 251 donors had contributed $31,605 of the $50,000 goal for the Hannah Wachsman Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Hannah was one of three girls on the Bainbridge High School junior varsity volleyball team who died in the crash March 16.

“Though we know she’s happily reunited with her dad (who we lost 12.5 years ago in a similar way), this world is a much darker place without her light in it,” mom Emily Hall Wachsman says on gofundme.com.

The entry goes on to say volleyball was Hannah’s passion. She started playing in the fifth grade, then in middle school, for traveling club teams and finally high school. Her jersey number was always No. 2, and she played setter and occasionally right-side hitter.

“Though she was small, she was mighty,” the entry continues, adding she wanted to be a nurse practitioner or work in the health sciences field in some way and even spoke of a desire to work in a trauma setting.

The family says the community has been “extraordinary throughout this tragic week…We can’t thank each one of you enough for being there with us, sharing pictures and memories with us, and just letting us know how loved our girl was. That is what is getting us through, moment by moment.”

The family says the scholarship will create a long-lasting legacy for Hannah. They are starting a 501(c)3 foundation to further the effort and contributing $10,000. To donate go to http://celebratehannah.com.