{"id":34486,"date":"2026-09-16T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34486"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:02:03","slug":"former-soccer-star-dies-suddenly-at-30-while-pregnant-with-her-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34486","title":{"rendered":"Former Soccer Star Dies Suddenly at 30 While Pregnant With Her First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Kayla Saager-Beckley Dies Unexpectedly at 30<\/h3>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The college sports community is mourning the sudden loss of Kayla Saager-Beckley, a former Binghamton University soccer star who died unexpectedly at just 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Kayla, a Long Island native, was married to Tulsa football assistant coach John Beckley and was pregnant with their daughter, Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to Tulsa head coach Tre Lamb, Kayla had been working out shortly before she was found unresponsive around 7 a.m. Her cause of death has not been publicly announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A standout soccer player, Kayla scored 22 goals at Binghamton, served as captain, earned two all-region honors, and was named the 2017 America East Striker of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">After college, she played professionally in the Czech Republic before becoming a coach and later working in college soccer scouting and recruiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Tulsa football team held a memorial in her honor, with players also planning to wear special helmet stickers during their next game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Kayla will be remembered for her achievements in soccer, her dedication to coaching, and her love for her family.<\/p>\n<p>May she rest in peace. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTshM5941Cw?si=iS5PgBHt6VaQWlg9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Saager-Beckley Dies Unexpectedly at 30 The college sports community is mourning the sudden loss of Kayla Saager-Beckley, a former Binghamton University soccer star who died unexpectedly at just 30 years old. Kayla, a Long Island native, was married to Tulsa football assistant coach John Beckley and was pregnant with their daughter, Sawyer. According to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34486\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former Soccer Star Dies Suddenly at 30 While Pregnant With Her First Child&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34488,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34486\/revisions\/34488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}