Outside Reading #29

"After an inspiring fight, a beloved Hall of Fame coach succumbs to cancer" (Sports Illustrated 24). Kay Yow was a women's basketball coach who lived from 1942-2009. She coached at the University of North Carolina State. Kay Yow went through a tough time like Rukimani when the drought occured in India. Her rough time was the fight against cancer. When fighting these tough times there is always something special that happens. Rukimani shows that when struggling good things happen in life like having children. With Yow's struggle came many achievements; "Yow racked up 737 wins against 344 loses" (Sports Illustarted 24); "Her Wolfpack teams went to 20 NCAA tournaments, 11 sweet 16s and one final four and they won five ACC regular-seasonn titles and four ACC tournaments" (Sports Illistrated 24). She even won a gold medal in the 1988 U.S. olympics. "Unfortunately at the age of 66 she dies after a long battle with breast cancer" (Sports Illustrated 24), and her like the old granny in Nectar have passed away and have just become stories of the past.