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“I got diagnosed with cancer today”, says Ava Jones in an Instagram video that she made on February 4, which is World Cancer Day. Ava’s just a sophomore in college but already has endured a lifetime’s worth of pain. A star basketball player recruited by Iowa, she and her family were hit by a car during her senior year of high school. Her father died, and Ava’s injuries forced her to retire from basketball. Now Ava has another fight in front of her. Wikipedia tells me that 88% of people diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma will live 5 years or longer. And people diagnosed under the age of 20 (which is close to Ava’s age) have a 97% survival rate. She’s got Hawkeye nation, and a whole lot more behind her.

🔸𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚!🔸 🔹Join us this Saturday as we celebrate UTEP and CUSA Hall of Famer, @JareicaH! 🔹The 2x CUSA Player of the Year led UTEP to its first CUSA title and first NCAA tournament win #PicksUp

Dawn Staley on the legacy she hopes to leave: “My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early ’50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of it. She left the South at the age of 13, seeking equality and opportunity. I think about her a lot … I think about what she made possible for me and maybe what I’m supposed to make possible for others. She left South Carolina because of the racial divide. I came back with a hope to bridge it. I also know what me coaching here symbolizes in light of history. When I walk around different neighborhoods in this city, I’ll hear Black people say, “I had never been on that campus before coming to your game.” I understand that my success isn’t about championships — it’s about bringing together people who were once, and in some ways still are, divided. It’s bigger than basketball. If I never won another championship but my legacy was that — to have changed the face of opportunity and united communities — I’d take that over most other things in this world.” #BlackHistoryMonth

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Gopher Women’s Basketball alumna, Taiye Bello. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time. 🤍