DIXON A GUIDING LIGHT FOR MANY SUDDEN DEATH AT 28 STUNS VALLEY FAMILY, ARMY FRIENDS.Byline: Billy Witz Staff Writer Young, tall and striking, high heels high heels high npl → talons hauts, hauts talons high heels high npl → hochhackige Schuhe pl seemed altogether unnecessary for Maggie Dixon Margaret Mary "Maggie" Dixon (May 9 1977 – April 6 2006) was an American collegiate women's basketball coach. Maggie Dixon was born in North Hollywood, California, and played basketball at Notre Dame High School. . While Dixon's collection of some 50-odd pair of heels, from black pumps to fire engine-red boots, were the envy of the young women she coached, the men who cared for the basketball courts would cringe every time they would see Dixon stalking the sidelines, knowing she was leaving imprints on the wood floor. As word of Dixon's sudden death began to circulate Friday, it didn't take long to realize that the 28-year-old North Hollywood native and head coach at Army made an impression with more than her shoes. No matter whom she came in touch with over the years teammates, classmates Classmates can refer to either:
"What a soul," said Rob DiMuro, her basketball coach at Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks who had known Dixon since she was a pre-schooler. "Salt of the earth in every single dealing I had with her. If anybody's soul is going to float right into the clouds, it's hers." Dixon died Thursday, less than 24 hours after collapsing while having tea at a friend's house near the academy. An autopsy conducted Friday revealed that Dixon had an enlarged heart Noun 1. enlarged heart - an abnormal enlargement of the heart; "mild cardiomegaly is common in athletes" cardiomegaly, megacardia, megalocardia symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated and a defective heart valve, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Westchester County Medical Examiner's office. While Dixon arrived at West Point just seven months ago, about 500 people filled the Catholic Chapel at the academy Friday to remember her, including UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach Ben Howland Ben Howland (born May 28, 1957 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American college head coach of men's basketball. He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and recently signed a contract extension through 2013. , a long-time friend of her brother Jamie, the coach at Pittsburgh. Hired less than two weeks before the start of basketball practice when the previous coach left amid accusations of recruiting violations, Maggie quickly made the women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team the toast of the campus. Army won 20 games for the first time since 1991 and it won the Patriot League regular-season and tournament championships, landing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. When the Black Knights rallied from 11 points down in the second half to beat Holy Cross, 69-68, to win the conference tournament title, cadets stormed the court, lifting Dixon and her players onto their shoulders. A photo of that scene graced the program at Friday's service. "It was electrifying e·lec·tri·fy tr.v. e·lec·tri·fied, e·lec·tri·fy·ing, e·lec·tri·fies 1. To produce electric charge on or in (a conductor). 2. a. ," athletic director Kevin Anderson said by phone Friday evening. "We've had success with other teams, but not the way it was infectious with the whole academy. The dynamic of the team, the personality of the women carried the academy and typified what Maggie was all about. She took over a talented group of individuals and got them to believe they could win together. Nobody was prouder of Dixon than her brother, Jamie. While the two were separated by 12 years, it seemed like two. They spoke almost daily on the phone, and Maggie doted dote intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. [Middle English doten. on Jamie and his wife's two children. Shortly after Army won its tournament, Maggie joined her parents in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of where they celebrated Pittsburgh's Big East tournament title, making Jamie and Maggie the first brother and sister to coach in the NCAA Tournament in the same season. The two had breakfast together Wednesday morning, hours before Maggie collapsed. "As her older brother, I know she looked up to me," Jamie said in a statement released Friday. "But I always looked up to her, too, and it's obvious that a lot of other people did as well." Sharon Marciniak, who played basketball with Dixon at Notre Dame, said Dixon was distraught because she couldn't make her 10-year class reunion last October. "Maggie was, on the court, the most intense player she loved the game," said Marciniak, Notre Dame's director of alumni relations. "Off the court, she was such a kick. She was the All-American girl." A former captain at the University of San Diego, Dixon had an unsuccessful tryout with the WNBA's Sparks. She talked her way into an assistant coaching job at DePaul before taking the Army job. On Friday, Notre Dame students who had signed a congratulations card they hoped to present Dixon, prepared to send it to her parents instead. A memorial service for Dixon is scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Charles Church in North Hollywood. In addition to her brother, Dixon is survived by her parents, Jim and Marge Dixon of North Hollywood and a sister, Julie. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Coach Maggie Dixon cheers on Army in its first-round NCAA Tournament game vs. Tennessee less than a month ago. Stephen Savoia/Associated Press |
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