Wife of Wake Forest assistant coach dies
Thursday, August 7, 2008
(Updated 3:00 pm)
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — The wife of Wake Forest assistant basketball coach Jeff Battle has died of lung cancer.
Joyce Battle died Wednesday. She was 44.
Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman called her "an exceptional person who lived her life with a tremendous amount of dignity." He credited her for "the tremendous example she set during this fight."
Battle played guard in the 1980s at Fayetteville State, where she averaged 6.1 assists per game in 1983-84, and was an assistant coach at Delaware State, where she met Jeff Battle. Most recently, she taught and coached basketball at a middle school in Winston-Salem.
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