Dave Yates is the highly successful girls basketball coach and the head of the math department at Fremd High School in Palatine. But now basketball is taking a back seat for Yates, who is battling Glioblastoma Multiforme, a form of brain cancer that is the most aggressive and most common type of cancer that originates in the brain.
What started out as a simple trip to the emergency room, if there is such a thing, has turned into the challenge of a lifetime for Dave and Kathy Yates and their family.
Early Monday morning, April 24, Dave and Kathy were told that, from the tests so far, they knew it was not an infection and was, in fact, brain cancer. Through a series of what turned out to be fortunate events, Dave's surgery was performed quickly that day. They were able to remove about 70% of one tumor, could not reach the second, and now discovered a third, also inoperable. But that's far from the end of this story.
After five years in Arizona, and now with two children, son Tanner and daughter Hope, the Yates clan decided it was time to come home.Back home After a stint as head boys basketball coach at Mahomet-Seymour, Yates returned to the suburbs, and in 2004, Dave and Kathy traveled to China to adopt their third child, Emma, who is now 19. In 2009, their fourth child, Brooklynn, was born.
"He has come to be one of the coaches who, year after year, set the standard for success and that is no accident. He works hard at it, and he seems to instill that hard work and fierce competitiveness in his players. I respect that he schedules big games against big competition and ultimately his team is better for it.
IHSA assistant executive secretary Beth Sauser, a 1987 St. Edward graduate and the longtime IHSA administrator for girls basketball, knows Dave Yates as a former Green Wave athlete and now as a coach.
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