Longtime hoops coach Inglese dies week after fall
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Longtime girls’s school basketball coach Cathy Inglese died Wednesday at age 60, per week after sustaining a traumatic mind damage in a fall.
Inglese’s household introduced the dying in an announcement posted by her sister Nancy Inglese on Fb.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share with you the passing of our sister and daughter Cathy Inglese,” Nancy Inglese wrote on behalf of her household. “We’ll miss Cathy sooo very a lot. Our thanks exit to everybody for his or her unbelievable love and assist.”
Inglese was employed as an assistant coach at Hofstra final month.
Cathy Inglese, proven right here in 2003, was lately employed by Hofstra as an assistant. She was the top coach at Boston School, Vermont and Rhode Island throughout her profession. AP Photograph/Elise Amendola
“Our hearts are hurting with the passing of Cathy,” Hofstra girls’s basketball coach Danielle Santos Atkinson stated. “Cathy was one of many kindest and nicest individuals I’ve come to know within the teaching trade and in her quick time with our program she left an indelible mark. Our whole program and the Hofstra household are heartbroken that she has handed however her reminiscence will proceed to affect our program every single day we step on the court docket.”
Inglese was head coach from 1993-2008 at Boston School, the place she led the Eagles to the NCAA Candy 16 3 times. Boston School gained the 2004 Huge East match below Inglese, too.
Inglese was additionally a school head coach from 1986-93 at Vermont, the place her workforce had undefeated common seasons in 1992 and 1993, and at Rhode Island from 2009-14.
A local of Connecticut, Inglese started her teaching profession at Glastonbury Excessive after graduating from Southern Connecticut State in 1980.
“Your complete Hofstra neighborhood is devastated with the passing of Cathy,” Hofstra athletic director Rick Cole Jr. stated. “Cathy was an incredible particular person and coach, and though a part of our household for a short while she had already left an amazing affect. Those that knew Cathy had been touched by her kindness and generosity, and her mark on the world of faculty athletics is immense.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.