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Anne Donovan - RIP

Mechelle Voepel‏ @MechelleV
Anyone who crossed paths with Anne Donovan is crushed by this awful news. She was a kind, thoughtful person who gave so much to basketball. She was just at the Hall of Fame ceremonies in Knoxville this weekend, where her former HS coach, Rose Marie Battaglia, was inducted.
 
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I am completely shocked by this news. Of course I didn't know her but what I knew of her I liked a lot.

May she rest in peace & blessings to her family and friends.
 
Wow, this is out of nowhere. My heart goes out to her family and friends.
 
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Kelly looks like a HS kid here.
 
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Sad and tragic. A true pioneer for the women's game of basketball who will be greatly missed.
 
In today's THE DAY page 1 Sports Section there is a little article:

ANNE DONOVAN DIES
Basketball mounds the death of Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist and former Connecticut Sun coach, who died of heart failure on Wednesday. She was 56.
SEE PAGE 3

The Day can't even get an Obit right!
The lady deserves at least a spell check to get the information right!
The complete article is ok inside on page 3. But someone was too lazy to pre-check the lead-in before sending it down the line to print.
 
RSHERMVIKES said:
In today's THE DAY page 1 Sports Section there is a little article:

ANNE DONOVAN DIES
Basketball mounds the death of Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist and former Connecticut Sun coach, who died of heart failure on Wednesday. She was 56.
SEE PAGE 3

The Day can't even get an Obit right!
The lady deserves at least a spell check to get the information right!
The complete article is ok inside on page 3. But someone was too lazy to pre-check the lead-in before sending it down the line to print.
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And my paper's headline implied that she was enshrined this past weekend - it said AD dies days after enshrinement. The actual article cleared up that she was simply there and correctly identified her entry in the various halls of fame. Poor editing, I think.
 
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She was way too young. I saw Ann play in person in the early 80’s. We had a very good team at the time, but she was virtually unstoppable.
 
2009 I encountered her once in Charlotte airport in a store buying bottled water...Elderly Chinese couple asked to take picture with her...She obliged...as they said thank you they mentioned she should play basketball...I laughed outloud...she smiled at me and left for her plane...

Sad news...she will be missed...
 
This was a shock when I first heard the news — I read “heart” and presumed heart attack. But several outlets say it was heart failure, i.e., congestive.

This must have been coming for some time then....? I wonder if her health was starting to become an issue when she stepped away from the Sun HC job? That was in Oct 2015, a little less than three years ago.

RIP , Anne — you certainly made your mark on the game and on many people in it
 
VAMike23 said:
This was a shock when I first heard the news — I read “heart” and presumed heart attack. But several outlets say it was heart failure, i.e., congestive.

This must have been coming for some time then....? I wonder if her health was starting to become an issue when she stepped away from the Sun HC job? That was in Oct 2015, a little less than three years ago.

RIP , Anne — you certainly made your mark on the game and on many people in it
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After reading some reports I'm wondering the same thing, God knows coaching a pro sports team is full of pressure & stress, maybe she decided it was just too much to take anymore.
 
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