Jaime Dixon Died at age 28

[ChuckLazar]

Jaime Dixon Head Coach of the Army NCAAB Team and Sister of Pitt's Head Coach died this morning at age 28....
Stuff like this makes to want to enjoy life a lot more and not to care about the small things in life...

[bover1]

Holy Shit I Saw The Interview Him And His Sister Did 4 The Tourney.......wow 28 Thats Sad..how Did She Die?

[ChuckLazar]

Holy Shit I Saw The Interview Him And His Sister Did 4 The Tourney.......wow 28 Thats Sad..how Did She Die?

Army's Dixon dies after going to hospital with heart problem
April 7, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports



Coach Maggie Dixon, who at age 28 led the Army women's basketball team to its first NCAA Tournament berth last month, died after suffering heart arrhythmia.

Dixon died Thursday night at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., U.S. Military Academy spokesman Lt. Col. Kent Cassella said. A memorial service was scheduled for Friday afternoon at West Point.


Maggie Dixon led Army into its first NCAA Tournament in her rookie season as coach. (AP)
Dixon was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering an "arrhythmic episode to her heart" Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy, said her older brother, Pittsburgh men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon.

Dixon said his sister collapsed and was taken to the intensive care unit of Westchester Medical Center.

"She ... went to the house of a friend for afternoon tea where she said she wasn't feeling good and she collapsed," said Dixon, who read a prepared statement from the hospital.

He said he had breakfast with his sister earlier Wednesday and that she had apparently been feeling well.

Jim O'Connell, a spokesman for the Westchester County medical examiner's office, said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday.

Army gave Dixon her first head coaching job last October. Six months later, she led the team to its first bid in the women's field. The rookie coach's accomplishment gained extra attention because her brother led the Panthers to the men's tournament at the same time.

The Dixons are believed to be the first brother and sister to coach in the NCAA Tournament in the same year. Army lost 102-54 to No. 6 Tennessee in the first round.

"I just loved the energy that Coach brought to practice every day and the way she never gave up on us, always believed in us," guard Cara Enright said. "She would tell us to 'Use what you've learned here at the academy and apply it to basketball.'"

Members of her team were with Dixon's family members at her bedside Thursday.

West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. William Lennox Jr. said the entire community was heartbroken by her death.

"From the time Maggie arrived here, her enthusiastic 'no limits' approach earned her the respect and love of everyone," he said.

The North Hollywood, Calif., native had hoped to play in the WNBA after graduating in 1999 from the University of San Diego. But the Los Angeles Sparks cut her after a tryout in May 2000. She went into coaching with encouragement from her brother.

"He said, 'If you want to do this coaching thing, do something drastic,'" Maggie Dixon told the Associated Press last month. "That's what I did."

She held a number of positions under DePaul coach Doug Bruno after walking into his office and introducing herself. She eventually became his top assistant in May 2004..

[bover1]

So Sad 28 Thats Not Right......

[kbsooner21]

thats horrible. really makes you appreciate all that you do have and not to take life for granted

[jcindaville]

Just heard it on the radio. So sad, so young.