College Coach, Wallingford Native, Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury

WALLINGFORD, CT — Wallingford native Cathy Inglese is “fighting for her life” after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a fall Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Inglese was recently hired as the associate head women’s basketball coach at Hofstra.

Inglese, 60, won a state title as a junior at Sheehan High School in 1976 and was inducted into Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996, according to Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register. She was the head coach of the women’s basketball team at Boston College from 1993 to 2008.

Former Boston College player Ayla Brown wrote in a post on Twitter Wednesday night that Inglese “has fallen and suffered a traumatic brain injury. She’s going in for her second surgery and doctors are doing all that they can. Please pray for her.”

“The entire Hofstra community joins the Inglese family in sending our thoughts and prayers to Associate Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Cathy Inglese, who suffered a traumatic brain injury yesterday,” according to a tweet from the Hofstra Women’s Basketball account on Thursday. “Please keep Cathy and her family in your thoughts.”

Nancy Inglese, Cathy’s sister, wrote in a post on Facebook that her sister “has suffered a traumatic brain injury and is fighting for her life,” according to Boston.com.

Cathy Inglese, who is also in Sheehan’s Hall of Fame, visited with this past year’s Sheehan basketball team before they played in the state tournament in March, according to the Hartford Courant.