NC State team visits Yow in hospital

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NC State team visits Yow in hospital

By Tim Hall and Jeff Gravley

Jan 21, 2009

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Raleigh, N.C. — The NC State women's basketball team wanted to visit their coach. So before the Wolfpack took flight to Miami Wednesday night, they stopped by a local hospital to see coach Kay Yow.

The hardest part was having to leave.

Kay Yow, head coach of N.C. State University's women's basketball team, has been hospitalized, a university spokesman said Wednesday.

Yow, who is battling breast cancer, has not coached the Wolfpack since Dec. 22. On Jan. 7, the team announced that she would not return to the bench for the balance of the season.

N.C. State spokesman Mark Kimmel confirmed Wednesday that Yow had entered a hospital last week but would not say which hospital. Kimmel said Yow's oncologist, Dr. Mark Graham, recommended she be hospitalized.

When Yow announced she would not return, she said, “Stepping away from coaching is one of the hardest decisions I have had to make, but I have great confidence in the experienced staff I have been working with for such a long time and the character of everyone involved in the program to respond positively to my decision.”

Yow is under contract to NCSU through 2012.

Yow, 66, missed 16 games in the 2006-07 season. She stepped aside when her cancer reappeared in November 2006. She returned in January of that season, and her inspired Wolfpack club reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

She did not miss a game last year.

Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and has been a public figure in the battle against the disease ever since.

Stephanie Glance has stepped in as the interim head coach and coached the Wolfpack to overtime losses to Top 5 teams in consecutive games against North Carolina and Duke.

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RE: NC State team visits Yow in hospital

Few people can unite the ACC, but Kay Yow's life and battles have shown that ACC fans are humanitarians first. I had the honor of having Coach Yow as a prof at State and know the inspiration she provides each and every day to those she meets. She has blessed so many and we are better for it. Coach Yow I pray for you daily that God's will be done whatever that may be - but my heart says in the words of Coach V - never ever give up. We love you.

RE: NC State team visits Yow in hospital

Our prayers are with you each and everyday. God Bless!!

RE: NC State team visits Yow in hospital

What a wonderful person Coch Yow is. My prayers are with her.

RE: N.C. State's Yow hospitalized

Kay Yow, you have inspired so many with your example on handling your battle with breast cancer in the public eye. You do however deserve to be pain-free and have joy in your life. I pray for you and your family during this time and understand God's will be done. If it is time for more fighting then so be it, you are a fighter, if it is time to allow yourself rest, then so be it. It has been a long hard fought battle. Love and Blessings to you and your family

RE: N.C. State's Yow hospitalized

Thoughts and prayers to Coach Yow, her family, and the NCSU family. God Bless!

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