Sandy Hoffman, at 57; volleyball coach at Bentley - Boston Globe
Last September, a month after head coach Sandy Hoffman’s emotional farewell to the women’s volleyball team at Bentley University, the school held a retirement reception to honor her decades of service to the program she started in 1982.... “Like so many of you, I’ve personally watched Sandy face incredible adversity over the past 18 months with amazing grace and good humor,” Larson said. Larson also recalled visiting Ms. Hoffman at Massachusetts General Hospital, where “wouldn’t you know, she was decked out in her Bentley warm-up suit, ready to get out of there as soon as possible and take on the world. An inductee to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Ms. Hoffman died of adrenal cortical carcinoma Monday in the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich. Hoffman, who will be inducted into Bentley’s Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. “To those of us from out of state, Sandy was like our second mom,” said Kristine Mickelson, a former team captain who is now a first-year assistant women’s volleyball coach at Bentley. With support from other Northeast-10 teams, Ms. Hoffman joined Bentley players past and present to start a campaign to raise awareness about adrenal cortical cancer. Source: www.bostonglobe.com
