Coach Was Under Federal Probe Before Suicide
When Alex Simonka, women’s basketball coach of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, committed suicide last week, you had to know there would be more to the story. A lifelong Coast Guardsman and coach of the team for 16 years, Simonka by all accounts showed no signs of depression.
Ten days after Simonka was found in his assigned parking space at the Academy in New London, CT, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, we learn that he had been suspended pending an investigation into the finances of the athletics department, of which Simonka was business manager.
