Cathy Inglese, a longtime girls’s basketball head coach who led Boston Faculty to seven N.C.A.A. event appearances and Vermont to consecutive undefeated common seasons, died on Wednesday. She was 60.
Her dying, introduced by her sister Nancy Inglese on Fb, got here every week after Inglese sustained a traumatic mind harm in a fall. A household assertion didn’t say the place she died.
The Hartford Courant reported on Sunday that Inglese had undergone two surgical procedures on the North Shore College Hospital in Manhassett, N.Y. She was employed final month to be an assistant coach at close by Hofstra College on Lengthy Island. The newspaper mentioned she had fallen down a stairwell earlier than a summer season exercise by the Hofstra crew.
Inglese gained greater than 400 video games in her 27 years as a head coach. She coached at Boston Faculty from 1993 to 2008, and within the Eagles’ seven N.C.A.A. event appearances underneath her, they reached the Candy 16 thrice.
Inglese led the Eagles to their lone Massive East Event championship in 2004, once they turned the one college to seize the title by profitable video games on 4 straight days.
Inglese went to Boston from Vermont, the place she had led the Catamounts to consecutive undefeated common seasons in 1992 (with a document of 29-0) and 1993 (28-0).
In 1993, Vermont was the one undefeated crew getting into the Division I N.C.A.A. event from the North Atlantic Convention, although it didn’t have a beginning participant 6 ft tall or over.
Rutgers gained, 80-74.
After her 15 years at Boston Faculty, Inglese turned head coach on the College of Rhode Island. In 2005 she was an assistant coach of america crew within the World College Video games, held in Izmir, Turkey.
Inglese was born on Dec. 16, 1958, in Wallingford, Conn., to Vincent and Nancy Inglese. Her father was the principal at Lyman Corridor Excessive College in Wallingford; her mom was an elementary college instructor, The Courant mentioned.
Cathy Inglese helped Sheehan Excessive College, Lyman Corridor’s crosstown rival, win a basketball state title in 1976. She went on to play basketball at Southern Connecticut State College and was additionally a three-year letter winner on the college’s softball crew. She graduated in 1980.
That yr, she started her teaching profession at Glastonbury Excessive College in Connecticut. She went on to turn into assistant basketball coach and assistant athletic director on the College of New Hampshire for 3 years earlier than accepting the top teaching put up at Vermont in 1986. She earned a grasp’s diploma in schooling from New Hampshire in 1987.
Earlier than becoming a member of Hofstra, she had for 2 years been an affiliate coach at Fairleigh Dickinson College in New Jersey.
Inglese was awarded a number of coach of the yr honors throughout her profession and inducted into state and college halls of fame.
Full info on her survivors was not instantly obtainable.