Kayla Saager-Beckley, former college soccer standout, pro player from East Islip, dies at 30
Kayla Saager-Beckley, 30, was married and pregnant with a girl. Credit: Binghamton University A former college soccer standout from East Islip died unexpectedly last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to Binghamton University Athletics and University of Tulsa head football coach Tre Lamb. Kayla Saager-Beckley, whose husband, John Beckley, is the Tulsa football team's outside linebackers coach, died on the morning of Sept. 9, Lamb said on Monday during his weekly news conference. She was 30 and pregnant with the couple’s first child, a daughter they named Sawyer.
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The cause of death has not been publicly disclosed. "She was working out, 10 minutes later she was found unresponsive," Lamb said. "It’s been a really hard week for him [Beckley], for us as a staff, our coaches’ wives." Saager-Beckley was a soccer standout at East Islip High School.
