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Vigil Planned for Calabasas Basketball Coach in Coma
Joe Frazier was critically injured in a motorcycle crash last week.
A prayer vigil for assistant basketball coach Joe Frazier, who was in a motorcycle accident, will be held at 8:45 p.m. on Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The 28-year-old suffered a head injury and remains in a coma following a hit-and-run accident in Tarzana on Aug. 25. There is no change in his condition as of Wednesday.
Frazier has been a Calabasas assistant coach for one year, and has strong ties to the basketball community by working as a private coach and also running a summer basketball camp in Pasadena.
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“He is like the pied piper of basketball, a very dynamic personality who has always been enthusiastic and full of life every time he has ever walked into a gymnasium,” said head basketball coach JonPalarz said. “He just has such a gift working with kids.”
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