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Balloon crash victim had local ties

College basketball coach Ginny Doyle, one of three people killed Friday when the hot air balloon they were riding in crashed and burned at a Virginia festival, spent summers at her family's vacation home in Lake Hauto.

The Lake Hauto Club sent a message to its members, "Our prayers and thoughts go out to the family of Ginny Doyle, who was killed in a hot air balloon accident, Friday evening, in Richmond, Virginia."The message said that the family, from the Philadelphia area, had a summer home on Lake Drive since the 1970s."Ginny and her brother spent all their summers growing up at the Lake and Ginny spent countless hours playing basketball and tennis," the message said."Please keep Ginny and her family in your thoughts and prayers."The Lake Hauto Club sent the email Sunday afternoon about Doyle, 44, who was an associate women's basketball coach at the University of Richmond.Doyle, who attended high school in Philadelphia, was the associate head coach of the Richmond Spiders women's basketball team.She and the school's director of basketball operations, Natalie Lewis, were killed Friday after the balloon hit a power line, caught fire and crashed into some woods about 25 miles north of Richmond. Veteran pilot Daniel T. Kirk was also killed.Doyle was known as a skilled free-throw shooter at Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia.She later set the NCAA women's record with 66 consecutive free throws during her senior season at Richmond, where she graduated in 1992.The record stood until 2011.Chris Mooney, the head coach of the men's basketball team at Richmond, was friends with Doyle when both played basketball for the Catholic high school in the late 1980s.Mooney told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Doyle excelled at recruiting."She built relationships very easily because she was such a good person," Mooney told the newspaper."And she could speak so passionately about Richmond."Doyle had been the associate head coach at Richmond since 2011 and had been on the coaching staff since 1999.She previously was an assistant college coach at Rhode Island and East Carolina.Doyle played for Richmond from 1990 to 1992, after transferring from George Washington University.The first body was discovered late Friday, shortly after the crash.Crews recovered a second body Saturday, and the third was found Sunday.The Associated Presscontributed to this report.

AP Photo/University of Richmond, Mitchell Leff This March 6, 2014, photo provided by the University of Richmond shows women's basketball associate head coach Ginny Doyle, top, and head coach Michael Shafer during a game against VCU in Richmond, Virginia. Doyle and director of basketball operations Natalie Lewis were two of the three people aboard a hot air balloon that drifted into a power line, burst into flames and crashed Friday in Virginia. Investigators say their remains were found about a mile apart in dense woods.