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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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