Margo Dydek Dead At 37: Malgorzata Dydek, former Polish national basketball team and the WNBA player died in hospital in Brisbane. She suffered a heart attack a week ago and was placed in a medical coma. She was 37 years old.
Kathy Roberts, Operations Manager for Northside Wizards Basketball League in Queensland, where Dydek was the head coach, said Associated Press, that Dydek died early Friday morning.
Poland-born Dydek, who was pregnant with her third child, suffered a heart attack May 19 and collapsed at his home in Brisbane. Roberts said that Dydek was in the early stages of pregnancy and her unborn child also died.Dydek was the number 1 pick in 1998 WNBA draft by Utah Starzz. She also played in San Antonio, Conn., and Los Angeles.
7-foot-2 Dydek was once said to be the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world.
She held the record for the number of blocks in a career WNBA, from 877 in 323 games and led the league in blocks nine times from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2005-07.
August 27, 2008, Dydek signed with the Los Angeles Sparks in the next time from basketball due to the birth of their first son in April 2008.
Recording on Facebook page Dydek says she was born April 28, 1974 in Warsaw, Poland, at 6 feet 7 father and mother, 6-3. She had two sisters, and her sister Clover played for the Colorado Explosion of the now-defunct ABL, and Poland.
Tina Thompson, a former teammate of Dydek in Sparks, said on Twitter Feed WNBA: “My condolences to the family Margo Dydek, may she rest in peace!” Read More
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