On May 23, two days before a scheduled C-section, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga coach Blaine Woodruff and his wife, Katie, lost their unborn child. The story below is told by Blaine, a first-person account of heartbreak and hope, that he and Katie wanted to share.
It was late May in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Katie had recently finished NCAA’s coaching the USC women’s team. My Pepperdine guys had made it to match play and had a chance to defend our title as national champions. Behind the scenes, I had already accepted the position of head men’s golf coach at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga but requested it wouldn’t be announced until after NCAA’s to limit any sort of distractions.