Lauren Hill attends Mount St. Joseph’s, which is a Division 3 Catholic school with 2300 students in Ohio.
Lauren Hill also was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) an incurable form of brain cancer typically seen in children between the ages of 5 and 7. It affects approximately 100 people in the U.S. per year; only 10 percent of children diagnosed with DIPG live for more than two years. Lauren was informed at the start of her freshman year that she was living on borrowed time. She has a few months to live and is doing everything to make that time count.  This hits very close to home and  I can only pray for her and hope she is someone that a person facing a terminal prognosis can see and gain comfort from.  We want a miracle and want our family and friends to stay with us as long as they can.Lauren Hill shows us a better way to live in the face of death.

Hill hopes the attention that she is bringing to this cancer will begin to change that fact, even if it means waging an ugly battle in the public eye and granting interviews and photo shoots until she is too weak to speak.”

ESPN also had a recap of the game. The NCAA moved opening day up two weeks so Lauren could play.

On Sunday afternoon, 10,000 people, including professional athletes from the WNBA and NFL as well as local celebrities, packed Xavier University’s Cintas Center arena not because Hill is dying or because she wanted to suit up for one collegiate game while she still has the strength.No, they flocked to Cincinnati because she made this game — and her fight — about something bigger than herself.

“Lauren’s dream to play basketball in a Mount uniform will come true this afternoon,” Mount St. Joseph president Dr. Tony Aretz said during a pregame speech. “But more important to Lauren is that now you all know what DIPG is. Ten thousand of you are here to share in her day. Today, we play for 22.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud48A8SvN6I

She scored 4 points but more importantly, she has brought national attention to a disease that will kill her and she is thinking ahead to the next family with a rare diagnosis.  That is what a hero does.