
Oklahoma State’s Women’s Basketball Coach, Assistant Perish in Plane Crash
Barbara | November 18, 2011
Our hearts are with the Oklahoma State University community today as it mourns the loss of women’s basketball team coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna. Both were on a recruiting trip and were killed when their single-engine plane crashed near Perryville, Arkansas.
Also killed in the crash were pilot Olin Branstetter, a former Oklahoma state senator, and his wife, Paula. There were no survivors.
Oklahoma State’s president Burns Hargis was quoted at a news conference: “This is our worst nightmare. The entire OSU family is very close, very close indeed. To lose anyone, especially these two individuals who are incredible life forces in our family, it is worse beyond words.”
–Barbara Bellesi













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