# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSaZU8ojFq1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38325377-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-18T17:01:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

For Cold Spring Harbor School District wrestling and football coach Randel McCoy and his wife, Brianna LaFontaine-McCoy, ALS also stands for A Love Story.

"Those two were pretty special together," said LaFontaine-McCoy's father, former Islanders star and NHL Hall of Famer Patrick LaFontaine. "Randel was a gift in our lives," LaFontaine added, "and he was a gift to everyone he met."

McCoy, 40, died after a yearslong battle with ALS, more commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's disease."

For more on this story, visit the link in bio.
(Photo Credit: LaFontaine family)

#ALS #obituary #coldspringharbor

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brendan Yerkes | @BrendanYerkes23 | https://gondola.cc/BrendanYerkes23 | Content Producer |
| Newsday • Long Island News | @newsday | https://gondola.cc/newsday | Reporter/Journalist |

## Tags

coldspringharbor, obituary, als

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