Wednesday, January 22, 2020
PMW Girls' Basketball Coach Succumbs to Cancer
Stacy Perryman, who coached high school girls' basketball at Pocono Mountain West for the past 14 years, has lost her battle with breast cancer. One of my friends, a basketball official, had this observation about her. "There were not many women coaches who would show up with a bald head to lead her team after a Chemo session, but last year I had a game where she did. Towards the end of the JV game, she was out of time outs and asked me if I could stop the game so she could put one particular player who had not participated into the game. I faked that my shoe was untied and called officials' time so that could happen. That is the kind of person she was, looking out for all her players. May she rest in peace."
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Heartbreaking. Way too young.
Graduated with 12 Varsity letters from East Stroudsburg High for for each of the three sport she played all four years. Holds the # 2 spot in scoring at 1,692 points for HS and 1,695 for ESU and is a Hall of Famer there.
I know her Mom Blenda who as a single mom worked two jobs and raised three awesome athlete kids Stacey being one of them in east Stroudsburg. They wen to ESHS. Her Brother Arthur known as Art Perryman was an awesome athlete as well as his sisters. It was not easy for these three kids as they have interacial parents and they overcame that stigma and became star athlete's. So much that Stacey was an ESU Hall of Famer, Perryman scored 1695 points in college and set a school record at the old East Stroudsburg High School with 1692 points in 1992. Her brother, Art, broke that record two years later, but a year after, he died of cancer when he was just 19 years old. They still both today hold the records of one and two n school history.
The mom Blenda worked at a local diner nights- her second job and when the kids where playing would turn on the AM station and before you knew it a group of customers were there and all became ESHS fans. She is a very awesome woman and Mom. Three children and two jobs to take care of them.
This year, an estimated 41,760 women will die from breast cancer in the U.S. Although rare, men get breast cancer too. That is 1 in 8 women. The lifetime risk for U.S. men is about 1 in 1,000. An estimated 2,670 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year in the United States and approximately 500 will die.
A very said story but she left her mark on the world with her personality, dedication and love life and made a lot of great kids following her path in woman's sports.
Thank you Bernie for mentioning this so all will know what she was made of.
Sad, REST IN PEACE. It appears only the GOOD DIE YOUNG
wonderful tribute
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