On Thursday, Penn State swimmer Nikolette Nolte hit a slight bump on her road toward cancer remission.
The freshman, whose September diagnosis with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia inspired the viral social media campaign #NikiStrong, learned her upcoming bone marrow transplant would have to be rescheduled due to some irregular test results.
Yet Nolte, described by her teammates and coaches at Penn State as “a light,” was her same bubbly self Thursday evening as she spoke to reporters about where she is in her treatments.
“It definitely has been tough, to say the least, but my motto, dating back to my first diagnosis, has always been ‘positivity is the best medicine.