
Grieving her father’s death and battling lung cancer, Southern Miss’ coach pulled off a defining upset
In 2017, Joye Lee-McNelis began writing her obituary. Where she was born. In the southern Mississippi community of Leetown. Preceded in death by. Then a blank space, not knowing if she would die before her parents. A note of thanks to her family, to the players she had coached, to the staffs she had worked…