Neena Pacholke — a former level guard for the USF girls’s basketball staff — was discovered lifeless this weekend after reportedly making suicidal statements … police inform TMZ Sports.
She was simply 27 years outdated.
A spokesperson for the Wausau Police Department tells us officers have been dispatched to a house in Wausau on Saturday morning for a welfare verify. When they arrived, they mentioned they acquired no reply on the door.
Eventually, officers made their manner into the residence and located Pacholke deceased. “Foul play is not suspected,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Pacholke’s sister informed the Tampa Bay Times the previous basketball participant died by suicide.
The Bulls are heartbroken to study of the sudden lack of our beloved former teammate Neena Pacholke (2013-16). Our ideas and prayers are with Neena and her household throughout this extraordinarily troublesome time. pic.twitter.com/kMDyBZVsOG
— USF W. Basketball (@USFWBB) (*27*)
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Pacholke starred on the courtroom at Freedom H.S. in Tampa — earlier than finally making her option to USF, the place she lettered from 2013 to 2016.
She later labored as a morning anchor for News 9 in Wisconsin.
“The entire team here at News 9 are absolutely devastated by the loss as we know so many others are as well,” reps for the station mentioned in an announcement Sunday. “Neena loved this community and the people who lived here. She was a kind person with a big heart and a contagious smile and we will miss her greatly.”
Pacholke’s sister added in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times, “She just radiated love and positivity, and she just cared so much about pouring into other people, and always put other people first. I think she did that at the expense of not caring about herself.”
If you or somebody you recognize is pondering of suicide, please name the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.
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