Golden Hurricane head coach Tre Lamb announced the tragic news on Monday. Kayla Saager-Beckley, former captain on the Binghamton University soccer team and wife of Tulsa assistant football coach John Beckley, died last week.
She was 30 years old. “We had a tragic death in our football family last Wednesday morning. Saager-Beckley was a newlywed and was pregnant with the couple’s first child as per a release from Binghamton. Tulsa head coach Lamb, meanwhile, added “It’s just been a really hard week for him, for us as a staff, the coaches’ wives. She was pregnant with their daughter Sawyer. And it’s been tough on our staff. We had a memorial for her last night. Just ask that you please pray for the Saager family, the Beckley family. We’re going to honor her with a helmet sticker this week at our game and she’s definitely in our thoughts and prayers. Just continue to think about them.”
One of our coach’s wives, John Beckley, our outside linebackers coach, his wife, Kayla, passed away suddenly Wednesday morning at about 7am,” the coach said, adding that she would be honored with a helmet sticker. Lamb said that Saager-Beckley died of a ‘medical emergency’. “She was working out; 10 minutes later she was found unresponsive,” the head coach noted.
