Legendary college basketball coach dies at 63... just three months after retiring

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By JAKE FENNER

Published: 21:17 BST, 25 June 2025 | Updated: 21:17 BST, 25 June 2025

Just a few months after announcing her retirement from being head women's basketball coach at the University of Southern Mississippi, Joye Lee-McNelis has died at the age of 63.

Lee-McNelis succumbed to a long battle with lung cancer.

She had spent the past 21 years leading the Golden Eagles' women's basketball team and called it a career at the end of the 2024-25 season.

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