nativefalcon Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Kaye Cowher dies of cancer at 54Kaye Cowher, the wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, died Friday after battling skin cancer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. She was 54.Born Kaye Young in Bunn, N.C., she met Bill Cowher at N.C. State in 1976, where he was a football player and she and her twin sister Faye played women's basketball. The couple married in 1981.Kaye Cowher played a key role in her husband's decision to retire from coaching in 2007 and move full-time to Raleigh, so the family could be together as their daughters completed their high school and college basketball careers.Meagan, Lauren, and Lindsay Cowher all followed their mothers' footsteps into Division I college basketball. Meagan and Lauren played together at Princeton, while Lindsay currently plays at Wofford.Kaye Cowher and her sister led N.C. State to the Atlantic Coast Conference's first women's basketball title in 1978. They also appeared in a Wrigley's Doublemint gum commercial.Kaye Cowher played one season for the New York Stars and two with the New Jersey Gems in the Women's Professional Basketball League until that league folded in 1981.The family has requested privacy and has released no information on Cowher's death. Services will be held in North Carolina on Monday, according to the report.http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5406440RIP to her, people always wondered why Bill quit Pittsburgh, I don't really remember them ever saying that his wife was sick. Sad. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHALCONABERNATHY Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Kaye Cowher dies of cancer at 54Kaye Cowher, the wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, died Friday after battling skin cancer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. She was 54.Born Kaye Young in Bunn, N.C., she met Bill Cowher at N.C. State in 1976, where he was a football player and she and her twin sister Faye played women's basketball. The couple married in 1981.Kaye Cowher played a key role in her husband's decision to retire from coaching in 2007 and move full-time to Raleigh, so the family could be together as their daughters completed their high school and college basketball careers.Meagan, Lauren, and Lindsay Cowher all followed their mothers' footsteps into Division I college basketball. Meagan and Lauren played together at Princeton, while Lindsay currently plays at Wofford.Kaye Cowher and her sister led N.C. State to the Atlantic Coast Conference's first women's basketball title in 1978. They also appeared in a Wrigley's Doublemint gum commercial.Kaye Cowher played one season for the New York Stars and two with the New Jersey Gems in the Women's Professional Basketball League until that league folded in 1981.The family has requested privacy and has released no information on Cowher's death. Services will be held in North Carolina on Monday, according to the report.http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5406440RIP to her, people always wondered why Bill quit Pittsburgh, I don't really remember them ever saying that his wife was sick. Sad. :unsure:Oh man, that's terrible, my prayers go out to him and his family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kibitzer Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I caught the tail end of this story on NFLN this morning, and thought they were talking about him at first. This is still tragic, but if you think about it, kind of explains (maybe) why he hasn't returned to coaching, and more or less has taken a hiatus from the limelight for a while. God bless the Cowher family... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBOPPER Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 May God Bless them in this time of sorrow.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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