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Many people can relate to his personal battle with cancer and his dedication to cancer research. His speech was full of emotion. He gave examples of his anguish during a seven-day stay before the awards ceremony, explaining his liver complications, kidney failure, and multiple surgeries. This provided the audience with real life experiences to understand the depth of what this award stands for.

The author tells the reader that his coach had 'cancer stenciled into his face,' which obviously implies that the man was diagnosed with the genetic defect, cancer. Though the man, whom we shall call Coach, made special plays and drew up as many plans of action that he could muster and believed in the new options as a way to win an uncertain game, he could not defeat the invading team from upstate. The way that Coach drew the plays and knew that the ?execution? of the plays was flawless, and

Throughout his 4 years at Boise State things were going outstanding, “I was a two sport athlete in both athletics and football. As a football player I earned awards for top receiver/defensive back in my respective conference and as a track athlete I earned conference and all-state awards setting school records that still stand today”. After college, Nelson decided to become a Masters athlete and run for the USATF. He felt confident in his ability’s to take the next step. “Once I hit that certain age, I knew I could compete in both open and Master’s

Peyton Scott is a junior Husky who has been on CHHS Varsity Track Team for two years. She loves track because her parents inspired her to pursue it, and her dad is actually the varsity coach. Her goal is to continue being on varsity for her senior year and run for her dream college, which is anywhere in Southern California. If she's not at track practice, her favorite place to run is in her lovely neighborhood. Running on the track for her two hours practices really help her find her weaknesses and strengths. One of her favorite routines is running two miles a day. Peyton has learned to pursue her goals and always believe in

Two years ago on a crisp October afternoon following school, I walked to the training room expecting a normal day for us. There would be the tapping of ankles, wrist, and thumbs, along with rehabilitation exercises and the whines and complains of athletes who would sit in the whirlpool for various injuries. After changing into sports medicine attire and putting my books up I was asked to take a framed object next door to the athletic director’s office. While patiently waiting for him to finish a meeting with

taught him how to run competitively. Pete's' words "if you can take it, you can make it'" go a long

The John P. Fadden Award recognizes a student who has overcome physical adversity to make a contribution to his/her team. This award was established in 1966 to recognize the contributions of athletic trainer and friend of Harvard athletes, John P. Fadden. Todd Preston is the best representative of the intended spirit of this award. Todd’s story not a unique one in the rise and fall of an athletes career that’s marred by adversity, highlights and coming up just a little short. It is unique in the way handled the positive and negative events on his path all while being a leader, mentor, and friend to his team mates.

I decided to use former North Carolina basketball coach, Mr. Jim Valvano. On a night in 1993, Mr. Valvano gave a speech that greatly affected myself and possibly many others on an emotional level. He led North Carolina’s NCAA basketball team to a championship in 1983. In 1992, Mr. Valvano was stricken with metastatic adenocarcinoma, which is a type of cancerous tumor that occurs in several parts of the body.

Stride after stride after stride, I was oblivious to the pain in my calves or the sweat dripping down my forehead; the only thing on my mind was outdoing my summer's best time. After running close to six miles every day, I had no intention of breaking that streak. However, that hot July day I had no choice but to end it. At the halfway point, as I turned my body to look behind me, my left knee underwent a full lateral patellar dislocation. My hopes of becoming a UConn athlete subsequently came to a standstill, but I took it as a meaningful sign that I would have extra time to focus on my number one aspiration of getting accepted into pharmacy school and becoming a pharmacist.

He started seeing doctors last December, but nothing serious was diagnosed until two weeks ago, when a gastroenterologist spotted "something very concerning," which after four days was confirmed as stage IV stomach cancer with a grim survival prognosis.

Seventeen-year-old Andrea Sierra Salazar is a cancer survivor. She had developed a lump on her neck, and her mother took her to the doctor. Andrea's lump turned out to be malignant. The doctors also found a tumor in Andrea's chest. She was diagnosed with stage two lymphoma. The treatments were grueling. Andrea had to miss a lot of school because of her treatments.

Gulping loudly, Stg. Jones took in a deep breath and ventured on. He focused in on one of the odd lumps, and as he walked closer he saw that the lumps took a distinctive form. As he walked closer and closer, a sick feeling swelled up in the pit of his stomach. Then, a few feet away from the lump, the smoke seemed to clear for a moment, and Stg. Jones felt his stomach drop.

In December of 2015 he underwent a prostate biopsy. The prostate biopsy revealed a malignant prostate adenocarcinoma with a staging of T2a and a gleason score of 7(4+3). At the time of the biopsy his PSA measured 141u/l. The urinary bladder biopsy revealed a low grade papillary urothelial carcinoma. No deep muscle invasion was identified. 2 weeks after the biopsy he underwent a baseline bone scan that revealed no bone metastases. In July 2016, he

Kevin was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2010 and was inevitably shocked, as he had always been fit and active and still remains a keen competitor at 5 a side football, 7 years later.

However, the Canadian team was not as successful at the 2012 Olympics held in London and finished an extremely disappointing fifth. Lamaze himself didn’t perform very well whereas, his teammate Tiffany Foster’s horse had been ruled unfit.