Buffalo Bills, Sabres co-owner Kim Pegula undergoing medical treatment for undisclosed health issues

Buffalo Expenditures and  Sabres co-operator Kim Pegula is undergoing cure for undisclosed heath challenges.

The Pegula relatives issued a statement Tuesday stating, “Kim is receiving health care care as a end result of some unpredicted overall health difficulties. We are pretty grateful for the progress she has created about the past few times. She has an exceptional team of professional medical authorities at her facet. We request that you continue to keep Kim and our family members in your prayers and ask that you regard our have to have for privateness.”

Pegula, 53, is president and CEO of Pegula Athletics and Enjoyment. She oversees the enterprise operations of the Costs and Sabres and is the initially woman president of each an NFL and NHL crew.

Kim and Terry Pegula, 71, bought the Charges in 2014 immediately after getting entrepreneurs of the Sabres in 2011.

Kim Pegula has been a community advocate for raising variety in the NFL and NHL, and she sits on the NFL’s place of work range committee. Pegula also serves on the NFL’s Super Bowl and main situations advisory committee, organization ventures committee and NFL foundation committee.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Pegula was adopted at 5 a long time previous by a Canadian family members dependent in Fairport, New York, east of Rochester. She afterwards attended Houghton Faculty, dwelling all her early lifestyle in western New York.

The Pegulas also have the National Lacrosse League Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks and the AHL’s Rochester People. An settlement was reached this year on a new $1.4 billion stadium that will maintain the Expenditures in Orchard Park, New York, for the foreseeable long run with a 30-calendar year lease.

Along with commissioner Roger Goodell, the Pegulas visited the internet site of the racist shooting that killed 10 men and women in an East Buffalo grocery store final month.

The Pegulas have five kids: Jessica, Kelly, Matthew, Michael and Laura.

The household did not deliver any additional information about Kim Pegula’s ailment.

Bills mentor Sean McDermott, who was hired by the Pegulas in 2017, reported Tuesday, “What [Kim and Terry Pegula] have completed for me, for my loved ones, for this crew and this metropolis and western New York — just currently being there for them, all of us collectively offering our prayers and assistance and giving them the privateness that they want, is essential in the course of this time.”

ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg contributed to this report.