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Coach Kay Yow served as great inspiration to everyone during her fight with cancer. I've had the wonderful opportunity to watch N.C. State and her fight through 10 years of ACC action, Cancer awareness, and the support of viewers, players, coaches, and cancer survivors and supporters. She left a mark in this world during her battle. To her family and friends, I know she will be missed but remember what she brought to your life. Keep lifting all those you encounter and keep awareness in the forefront.

Coach Yow is in our prays and thoughts here at WVSU. May God bless her and keep her.

The Augustana Women's Basketball team sends our deepest condolences to the entire Wolfpack family. Coach Yow has and will continue to be an inspiration to us all. She touched more people than she will ever know and will be greatly missed.

For those of us who loved her but can't make it to Cary, I heard that her funeral will be on the internet at 3 pm (eastern) Friday on www.abc11.com

God, thank you for the impact she had on so many.

I will never forget watching Kay Yow walk up to the stage during the ESPY's and receiving the award for perseverance. I have followed Kay Yow for a few years, and her faith has inspired me to become a different person. I play high school basketball, and her inspiration has made me a stronger pereson. I have never seen anybody fight like she did. God can work through us many ways, and I know that many people were affected by this amazing woman. In honor of Coach Kay Yow and to her family, Thank you so much for changing my life and showing me how faith can drastically work in my life.

My daughter Chrissy and I had the pleasure of speaking with Coach Kay Yow on several occasions and often at the final four. She inspired the young and everyone that she touched with her wonderful personality. She loved people and when you passed by her way even if only once, she never deferred or neglected the kindness to you, that she shares and showed with everyone she has contact with. She truely was a great human being, great coach, and a great motivater. Coach Yow had a way with my daughter Chrissy, that motivated her as a person and hoopster. We were big fans of NCST. Our memories of Coach Kay Yow will live with us forever and we are saddened by her passing. We loved Coach Yow. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Yow family.

Coach Yow was a great coach and friend! I will miss seeing her at summer camps and firing up the players on the sidelines. Her inspiration and legacy will live on by all those who knew her. Her love for people and the game is immeasurable. I am so very thankful that I had the opportunity to be a part of her camps. Her impact on my life will never be forgotten and I somehow am now grasping for the words that she spoke to me while I was coaching her camps. My thoughts and prayers are with the family, the staff, and players- may her spirit live through you! GO PACK for YOW!

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Coach Kay Yow. As a graduate student at UVA during the 1989-91 seasons I witnessed some of the best basketball between the teams led by UVA's Dawn Staley and NC State's Andrea Stinson. Little did I know that 3 years later I would have chance to meet Coach Yow. I worked at NC State as the Director of the Minority Engineering Program and I received a call to come to a dinner with the team. I learned once I got there that Coach Yow wanted professional women on campus to interact with the players so that they would have role models off the court. What a classy thing to do. I have worked on several college campuses and followed women's college basketball for years and I have not met a more classy woman and coach. She was an asset to the game and will truly be missed.

This season, our Women's Basketball Team, UW-Milwaukee, participated in NC State's season opening tournament. My father had passed away a couple days before the trip, so I was unable to travel with the team.
Kay Yow was so gracious to our team and took time with our athletes to provide inspiration and let them know her heart was with them. She spoke about the importance of remaining strong and gave them a wonderful quote - "Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it."
The players came home completely in awe of how kind and thoughtful she was.
When our team had returned home, they gave me a card that Kay Yow had written to me. She shared in my sadness in losing my father and told me that she missed me being there and hopes that our paths will cross again.
I wept when I read her card and was also in awe of her sincerity and kindness she showed towards me.
Our Milwaukee Women's Basketball Family wants to send our deepest condolences to the NC State Family. Her loss must be very difficult for all of you. We feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to meet Kay Yow and to be graced with her unconditional love of humanity on our weekend in NC State. Even though, I did not have a chance to personally meet Kay, I look forward to the day when our paths do cross in Heaven! In deepest Sympathy, Sandy Botham, Head Coach, UW-Milwaukee Women's Basketball