As Fall Sports Reopen, Coaches Succumb to COVID-19

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With the widely welcomed return to high school and college sports this fall come reminders that a global pandemic is still very much alive in the United States.

Pennsylvania’s Northampton Area School District announced last Wednesday that social studies teacher and Southern Lehigh High School football coach Mike Gurdineer had died after battling COVID. “Our hearts break for Coach Gurdineer and his family today as we offer our condolences to all who have crossed paths with Mike,” athletic director Shaun Murray said in a statement, as reported by Daily Beast, which also pointed out that 24-year-old Ryan Dupree, an assistant basketball coach at Shorter University, had died on Monday two days after receiving a positive test.

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