Former YSU coach Dan Peters dies

By The Vindicator | October 27, 2014 at 4:25p.m.

Former Youngstown State men's basketball coach Dan Peters died Monday morning after a yearlong fight against pancreatic cancer.

Peters, 60, coached the Penguins from 1993-99 and was the Mid-Continent Conference Coach of the Year in 1998.

The Cleveland native also had been a head coach at Walsh and an assistant at Cincinnati and Ohio State.

Most recently, Peters was director of basketball operations at Akron. He took a leave of absence from the Zips program in December 2013 after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

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