The release also said DePaul Associate Head Coach Jill M. Pizzotti was named interim head coach in Bruno's absence.
DePaul women's basketball may be without its fixture at head coach to start its season.The university announced Monday that Doug Bruno, the Blue Demon's head coach since 1988, will be on medical leave. He missed DePaul's media day."Last month, Head Coach Doug Bruno experienced a medical incident," DePaul athletics wrote in a statement. "He is recovering at home and looks forward to returning to team activities as soon as possible.
Pizzotti has been with DePaul for 14 seasons with the Blue Demons and has been the team's associate head coach for the last 11 years.The Villa Park native reminisced about coaching against Bruno during her team as the head coach at Saint Louis and the different basketball camps she met Bruno at in the Chicago area before she even worked for him."I was a Doug Bruno camper, like very female in the Chicagoland suburbs, and he's just a guy that bleeds DePaul women's basketball.
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