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Media Highlight: Former Dalhousie basketball coach Savoy gives cancer full‑court press

Posted by Communications and Marketing on August 21, 2014 in Media Highlights

Published in the August 19 edition of the Chronicle Herald:

If Carolyn Savoy was supposed to be dead, someone should have left clearer instructions.

The long-time Dalhousie Tigers women’s basketball coach received a devastating diagnosis in late May.

She was told she had terminal cancer and there was little she could do but get her affairs in order. She might have weeks, months — maybe a year or two — and it might involve palliative care in the end.

Stage 4 bile duct cancer with metastasis to the liver is about as bleak as it gets.

But you don’t win 858 university basketball games over three decades without embracing a full-on scrap.

Famously demanding of her players until her retirement in 2009, the 67-year-old Savoy turned some of that fervour on herself. She knew the best team didn’t always win, but the only real failure was quitting.

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