Photo by: Bobby R. Hester, (c) 2009
Longtime Basketball Official Scorer, And UC Riverside Alumna Cathy Lennox '69 Passes Away
10/24/2016 10:29:00 AM | Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
Riverside—The Highlanders Athletics Family is mourning the loss of a beloved colleague and friend as longtime basketball official scorer Cathy Lennox '69 passed away this morning.
A celebration of her life is scheduled for Friday, October 28 at 11 am at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506) with a reception in Smith Hall immediately following.
If you attended a UC Riverside basketball game over the last 50 years, odds are you saw Cathy, dressed in her black and white striped officials jersey, smiling and sitting at center court between the team benches. It is there where she kept the official scorebook—a position she first embraced back in the late 1960s—charting the points and fouls for both teams.
Cathy remained a fixture courtside through the 2015-16 season, keeping the book for well over 1,000 men's and women's basketball contests for the Highlanders during that time.
Alongside her for the majority of those games was her husband, Rob '71, also a graduate of UC Riverside. Rob joined the scorer's table crew with the advent of the shot clock in 1985.
German poet Ludwig Jacobowski once wrote, "Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were." The UC Riverside Athletics Family is wearing the biggest smile imaginable today as we remember Cathy Lennox.
A celebration of her life is scheduled for Friday, October 28 at 11 am at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506) with a reception in Smith Hall immediately following.
If you attended a UC Riverside basketball game over the last 50 years, odds are you saw Cathy, dressed in her black and white striped officials jersey, smiling and sitting at center court between the team benches. It is there where she kept the official scorebook—a position she first embraced back in the late 1960s—charting the points and fouls for both teams.
Cathy remained a fixture courtside through the 2015-16 season, keeping the book for well over 1,000 men's and women's basketball contests for the Highlanders during that time.
Alongside her for the majority of those games was her husband, Rob '71, also a graduate of UC Riverside. Rob joined the scorer's table crew with the advent of the shot clock in 1985.
German poet Ludwig Jacobowski once wrote, "Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were." The UC Riverside Athletics Family is wearing the biggest smile imaginable today as we remember Cathy Lennox.
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