Stacy Redondo-Santa Cruz lived a full life — as a mother of three, a teacher, a coach and a former softball player at Arizona and Cholla High School — before dying at age 52 in the aftermath of a stroke.
Bruce Pascoe Mike Candrea still has memories of the time Stacy Redondo went wide around home plate to avoid a tag and score a key College World Series run in 1991. There’s also the moment she grabbed an electric shaver to help buzz the hair off the UA softball coach’s head following the Wildcats’ 1993 national championship.
More than anything, Candrea recalled Redondo-Santa Cruz’s off-field perseverance, and how far she took it. Afterward, she balanced both academics and softball in her professional career: While raising three children and starting her teaching career, Redondo spent two stints with Salpointe’s softball team, serving as head coach in 2013 and 2014.
She also loved country music. Bass, who also was briefly part of the Arizona softball program in 1995, said the three most important men in her sister’s life were, in order, their father, Candrea and George Strait, though she never knew the country music star. Even though UA softball coach Caitlin Lowe played for the Wildcats from 2004-07, over a decade later than Redondo-Santa Cruz, the bond was noticeable. She said Tuesday “the whole Wildcat community was mourning” and in shock over the news.
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