Notre Dame women's basketball remembers former operations manager

However long you’re part of a Notre Dame athletics program, you always are treated like family even beyond your time at the university. The women’s basketball program clearly felt that way about former student manager and operations director Katie Schwab.

After the 2013-14 season, her first as the Irish’s operations manager, Schwab, who had Type 1 diabetes, suffered a medical emergency that led to a traumatic brain injury and left her incapacitated and minimally conscious.

Schwab’s longtime suffering ended Sept. 6 when she passed away in Mishawaka at the age of 33. One week later, the Irish have released the following statement on Facebook:

Let this be a reminder to all of us never to take ourselves or our loved ones for granted. Anything can happen to anyone at anytime, and every day truly is a gift.

We have to enjoy every blessing we have while we can no matter the circumstance. So hold your loved ones a little closer today.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

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