GREENUP COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) – College students and workers on Thursday had been mourning the loss of life of Greenup County Excessive College trainer and coach Jamie Kennedy.
A well being trainer and assistant soccer coach, Kennedy’s passing away was introduced Wednesday by Superintendent Traysea Moresea.
Kennnedy was 49.
“Once I needed to communicate the phrases to our staff that Jamie Kennedy had handed away, it harm deeply,” mentioned Zack Moore, Greenup County Excessive’s head soccer coach. “Though everybody within the room knew it was true, the phrases harm as a result of we needed to acknowledge what we had misplaced. A good friend, coach, trainer, and one of the vital real males any of us have recognized.”
Gamers on Kennedy’s staff, together with Tanner Fortson, mentioned Kennedy was extra like a father determine and position mannequin.
“You can name him at three o’clock within the morning in the course of the night time and for those who wanted something, didn’t matter what time it was, he was there to assist,” Fortson mentioned.
Superintendent Moresea tells WSAZ that Kennedy had been quarantined since final Friday. He was taken to the hospital Wednesday by ambulance.
“He was extremely revered by college students,” Moresea mentioned. “Greater than only a trainer and greater than only a coach. Educators and coaches, they turn into part of your neighborhood. They’re individuals who others look to for advisement. They’re individuals who put their coronary heart into what they’re doing. He was a kind of prime notch educators that did all of these issues.”
Moresea says Kennedy’s spouse can be an worker at Greenup County Excessive College.
In a letter addressed to the “Greenup County household,” the superintendent mentioned that as a result of excessive variety of COVID instances and “a current loss in our GCSD household,” faculties can be closed on Thursday, Aug. 26 and Friday, Aug. 27. These can be non-instructional days. Make-up days can be added to the tip of the varsity 12 months calendar.
Based on the superintendent, 400 of the county’s 2,700 college students are quarantined.
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