Former WNBA player Margo Dydek has died at 37 after pang a heart conflict a week ago as well as being placed in a medically prompted coma.
Cathy Roberts, a operations physical education instructor for a Northside Wizards in a Queensland Basketball League, where Dydek was conduct coach, told The Associated Press which Dydek died early Friday.
The Poland-born Dydek, who was profound with her third child, suffered a heart conflict upon May nineteen as well as collapsed during her home in Brisbane. Roberts pronounced which Dydek was during an early theatre in her conceiving physically as well as which her unborn kid had additionally died.
Dydek was a No. 1 collect in a 1998 WNBA breeze by a Utah Starzz. She additionally played for San Antonio, Connecticut as well as Los Angeles.
The 7-foot-2 Dydek was once pronounced to be a tallest active veteran womanlike basketball player in a world.
Margo Dydek hold a jot down for many blocks in a WNBA career, with 877 in 323 games, as well as led a joining in blocks 9 times, from 1998 to 2003 as well as again from 2005-07.
On Aug 27, 2008, Dydek sealed with a Los Angeles Sparks following time divided from basketball due to a bieing innate of her initial son in Apr 2008.
An entrance upon Dydek’s Facebook page says she was innate upon Apr 28, 1974, in Warsaw, Poland, to a 6-foot-7 father as well as a 6-3 mother. She had dual sisters, as well as her elder sister Kashka used to fool around for a Colorado Explosion of a right divided gone ABL, as well as in Poland.
Tina Thompson, a former teammate of Dydek’s upon a Sparks, pronounced upon a WNBA’s Twitter feed: “My condolences to a family of Margo Dydek, might she rest in peace!”
The Brisbane-based Wizards posted a matter upon their website Friday.
“Always in a hearts – Margo,” it said. “With good dolour we admit a flitting of … Margo Dydek. Margo suffered a heart conflict only over a week ago as well as upheld divided Friday 27th May, peacefully as well as surrounded by her family.
“You were a much-loved part of of a village as well as we will skip we greatly. Our hearts go out to your family, David as well as your pleasing boys xx.”
She is survived by her husband, David, as well as dual sons, David, 3, as well as Alex, 7 months.
