Phil Partee

Please pray for Phil and his family.

His wife died while giving birth to their baby Friday night.

Phil is the best coach. He spent three nights a week, and most of his Saturdays, motivating and teaching the boys.

He's going to need all the love, strength and comfort we can send his way.

This is what the football assocation wrote on their website:

We have some very sad news within the BSAA family. Phil Partee, assistant on the 2nd grade Silverbacks, lost his wife this past weekend. Dawn Partee, who was 33 years old and 8 months pregnant, went to Centerpointe Hospital last Friday evening. They did a heart cath and the tests confirmed she had 2 blocked arteries that were 90%. They did an emergency c-section to get the baby out because he was losing oxygen. Once they got him out they did emergency open heart surgery. Unfortunately, Dawn did not survive. Zaylen Nyphre Partee did survive and I'm sure Phil and Big brother Teyler, who plays on the Silverbacks, will be so appreciative knowing they can count on the support from his family and close friends as well as extended families like BSAA. I know Phil just a little but just by talking to Damon Dombrowski and others who know him well it's obvious Phil is an awesome husband, father and coach. Our thoughts and prayers along with our hearts go out to him and his entire family.

Here is what we will be doing to help Phil, Teyler and Zaylen.

They are registered at Babys R Us under PARTEE.

The Silverbacks (Damon Dombrowski--Head Coach) will have a tent set out at the fields this weekend to collect items like diapers, clothes, wipes, shampoo, lotion, gift cards, etc. They will also be collecting monetary donations as well. If each player could give just $5 we would have over $5,000 to help this family just from our teams/players. If you can go $10 or $20 per player then that would be even better. BSAA will be making a monetary donation as well. Every Head Coach in our league is getting this so even if you are not playing this weekend please get this information out to your Team's parents. There is no monetary value that can be put on this tragedy when someone so young unexpectedly loses their life but as we all know life is real and tomorrow must go on for Phil and his family.