{"id":60667,"date":"2025-12-04T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60667\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:32:07","slug":"siena-lacrosse-coach-liam-gleason-dies-at-41-after-fall-at-home-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60667\/","title":{"rendered":"Siena lacrosse coach Liam Gleason dies at 41 after fall at home \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siena men&#8217;s lacrosse coach Liam Gleason has died, the school announced Wednesday, three days after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a fall at his home. He was 41.<\/p>\n<p>Gleason led the Saints to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament this past season, which was his seventh at the Loudonville, New York school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sudden, senseless loss carries a kind of pain that defies understanding,\u201d Siena President Chuck Seifert said. &#8220;It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone more universally loved and admired than Liam. Our community was blessed by Coach Gleason\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gleason leaves behind a wife and three children,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/liam-gleasons-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">and a fundraising effort<\/a>\u00a0for the family&#8217;s needs going forward is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people \u2014 including Siena players in uniform, school officials and members of the University at Albany athletic community \u2014 lined a hospital hallway Wednesday afternoon to pay tribute to Gleason as he was being wheeled into surgery to donate some of his organs, Siena officials said. The school announced his death a couple hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Gleason was a standout player at Albany, one of Siena&#8217;s top rivals \u2014 with the schools separated by just a few miles. He began his coaching career as a Siena assistant, then returned to Albany as an assistant before coming back to Siena as head coach in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral will be Saturday on Siena&#8217;s campus, school officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siena men&#8217;s lacrosse coach Liam Gleason has died, the school announced Wednesday, three days after he suffered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32440,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-60667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-colleges-universities","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}