Margo Dydek 7 ft fmr WNBA basketball player dies of heart attack at 37

This is very sad.

Daily Mail

A seven-foot-tall former women's basketball star has died of a heart attack at the age of 37.

Margo Dydek, who was pregnant with her third child, collapsed at her home in Brisbane, Australia, last week.

The Poland-born former WNBA star was put in a medically induced coma but died earlier this morning.

Cathy Roberts, the operations manager for the Northside Wizards in the Queensland Basketball League, where Dydek was head coach, said that Dydek was at an early stage in her pregnancy and that her unborn child had also died.

Dydek was the No. 1 pick in the 1998 WNBA draft by the Utah Starzz. She also played for San Antonio, Connecticut and Los Angeles.

The seven-foot-two Dydek, who was affectionately nicknamed 'Large Marge', was once said to be the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world.

She held the record for most blocks in a WNBA career, with 877 in 323 games, and led the league in blocks nine times, from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2005-07.

On August 27, 2008 Dydek signed with the Los Angeles Sparks following time away from basketball due to the birth of her first son in April 2008.



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