Pancreatic Cancer Connections
SURVIVING PANCREATIC CANCER
Thomas Grissom
:
Brother-in-law of Los Angeles Kings President and General Manager Dean Lombardi
Dave Rose
:
Head coach of the Brigham Young University Cougars men’s basketball team
Debbie Ryan
:
Former head coach for the women’s basketball team at the University of Virginia, Ryan also coached
the American women’s basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer in 2000 but is currently in remission. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball
Hall of Fame in 2008.
SPORTS FIGURES LOST TO PANCREATIC CANCER
Johnny Bailey
(1960–2010):
Former Running Back, Chicago Bears
Myles Neil Brand, PhD
(1942–2009):
14
th president of the University of Oregon, president of the United States’ National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) and 16th president of Indiana University
Willye Brown White
(1939–2007):
First American track and field athlete who competed for the United States in five Olympic Games
in 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972
Ely Callaway
(1919–2001):
Callaway Golf Co. President and CEO and a golf visionary who turned his company into the world’s
biggest club maker
Charles Jerome “Chuck” Daly
(1930–2009):
Head coach who led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA)
Championships in 1989 and 1990, and the Dream Team to the men’s basketball gold medal
at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Rollie Dotsch
(1933–1988):
Former coach, Minnesota Vikings
Mike Faulkiner
(1947–2008):
Player Scout, Washington Redskins