BLACKSBURG – HokieVision, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department’s video office, released its latest documentary Thursday, spotlighting former women’s basketball player Rayna DuBose, who overcame incredible odds to be one of the department’s greatest success stories.
DuBose, 34, enrolled at Virginia Tech in 2001 and played in 13 games during the 2001-02 season. On April 2, 2002, she felt extremely ill and two teammates took her to the local hospital. Doctors there diagnosed signs of meningococcal meningitis, a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, and ordered her to be airlifted to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia for treatment.