Birmingham Seaholm has seen more than its fair share of tragedy in the past year in the athletic department.
Last summer, longtime softball and wrestling coach Mike Hessling died of a heart attack. Then, longtime tennis coach Keith Bernacki lost his long battle with cancer.
Losing two coaches is more than enough for anybody to handle, but now Seaholm has to deal with the tragic death of another.
On Sunday night, new football coach Nick Deane, who took over during the offseason for Chris Fahr, died tragically of a heart attack.
Deane was 62 years old and a respected coach who was an assistant at Troy, Grosse Ile and Seaholm.
It's another blow to a Seaholm community that's dealt with so much of late. In addition to the death of three aforementioned coaches, Seaholm had to deal with a situation that saw racist graffit messages get written all over the school, and a racist letter sent to a teacher.