Longtime NC State women's coach Kay Yow dies at 66

AP ^ | 01.24.09 | By AARON BEARD

[Perdogg]

North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast cancer, died on Saturday. She was 66.

Yow, first diagnosed with the disease in 1987, died Saturday morning at WakeMed Cary Hospital after being admitted there last week, university spokeswoman Annabelle Myers said.

"I think she understood that keeping going was inspirational to other people who were in the same boat she was in," Dr. Mark Graham, Yow's longtime oncologist, said Saturday.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[MikeD]

Thanks for the ping, although I wish it was under happier circumstances. Coach Yow was at NC State for about as long as I can remember, and was always a class act. I found out about her passing while on the phone with my Dad yesterday.