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The Huntsville Times
Wreck kills UAH assistant coach
Crash ends recruiting trip for women's team; head coach is injured
09/19/02
By DARRELL PONDER
For The Times dlpndr@cs.com
Lindsay Floyd had been promoted to assistant women's basketball coach this summer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and was looking forward to marrying another assistant coach at the university.
But Floyd, 23, was killed and head women's basketball coach Andy Blackston was injured in a recruiting trip to West Memphis, Ark., Wednesday when their car wrecked shortly after 1 p.m. on U.S. 72 East
near Corinth, Miss.
''Lindsay Floyd was a special, special person," UAH basketball coach Lennie Acuff said Wednesday. "We're just so sorry for her family."
Floyd was recently engaged to UAH assistant men's basketball coach Mark Price.
''She was a very good player here, but more than that, a good person," Acuff said. "We're sorry for Mark, and their families will be in our prayers along with Andy and his family."
Blackston, 28, is entering his second season as head women's basketball coach at UAH.
Corinth Police Chief Fred Johnson told the Daily Corinthian that Blackston may have dozed off before the 1:10 p.m. wreck on U.S. 72 east of Corinth.
"His vehicle veered to the right of the highway and it appears he over-corrected," Johnson said. "Once he did, the car went into a spin, turned backward and struck the rear tandem wheels of the 18-wheeler on
the car's passenger side."
The rear wheels then went over the car, he said, trapping Blackston and Floyd.
Blackston was treated Wednesday at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth with broken ribs, arm injuries and cuts. A UAH athletic department spokesman said this morning that he had been released from the hospital.
The truck driver, Patrick Turner, 37, of Russell Springs, Ky., was not injured.
Floyd was ''a wonderful young woman,'' said UAH President Frank Franz. ''We are very concerned about Andy Blackston and hoping for a full recovery from his injuries. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families in this, their time of trial.''
''This is a tragedy that the family and the team will have to have time to work through," UAH athletic director Jim Harris said. "We will do our part to help them get through this.''
The volleyball match between UAH and the University of Montevallo, scheduled for Friday night at Spragins Hall, has been postponed; no makeup date has been set.
The funeral for Floyd will be Friday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Sparta, Tenn. Visitation will be tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the same church.
Floyd was a graduate assistant coach at UAH during the 2001-02 season and was promoted to assistant coach this summer. She graduated in 1997 from White County High School in Sparta, after lettering in
basketball and volleyball. She also lettered two seasons at Roane State Community College in Harriman, Tenn.
She transferred to UAH in 1999 and played for the Lady Chargers from 1999 through 2001.
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Lindsay Elizabeth Floyd
Lindsay Elizabeth Floyd, 23, of Huntsville, Ala., formerly of Sparta, passed away Sept. 18, 2002, in Corinth, Miss.
Floyd was born Feb. 16, 1979, in Putnam County, to William Robert and Carol Elizabeth Walker Floyd.
She was an assistant coach for the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Floyd was preceded in death by her grandfather, Silas Floyd.
Survivors include her parents, Bill and Carol Floyd of Sparta; one brother, Greg Floyd of Sparta; fiance?, Mark Price of Huntsville, Ala.; grandparents, Wendell and Katherine Walker of Spring City and Stella Floyd of Sparta; aunts and uncles, Larry and Donna Walker of Crossville and Jim and Frankie Floyd, Steve and Debbie Floyd and Bucky and Vickie Floyd all of Sparta; and cousins, Mickey Walker and Leigh-Ann Walker both of Spring City, Angie Floyd Hillis, Shaun Floyd and Nick Floyd all of Sparta.
Arrangements: Services will be held at 3 p.m., Sept. 20, 2002, at Sparta First Baptist Church with burial in Copeland Chapel Cemetery. Jeff Jones will officiate.
Memorials may be made to Lindsay E. Floyd Scholarship Fund, c/o Hunter Funeral Home, Sparta, Tenn. 38583.
Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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