NASHUA – Local girls basketball coaching legend John Fagula, according to multiple sources, has passed away this morning at the age of 73.

Fagula won 11 state championships in an illustrious 432-72 coaching career at Nashua High School, including 1987, when his Purple Panthers team was declared the top high school girls basketball team in the nation by USA Today.

After 20 years at Nashua, Fagula retired and took a four-year break, and then took the head job at Londonderry in 2003, where he won title No. 12 in 2014 in his final game. He retired with 624 career wins.

Fagula, who had been suffering from various health ailments the last few years, was inducted into the Nashua High School Hall of Fame in 1996, and is also in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Just last October, he was also inducted into the New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization (NHBO) Hall of Fame.

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