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UCLA coach Jim Mora helps child with cancer

UCLA head coach, Jim Mora, is currently putting in effort to help raise money and awareness for a little girl’s battle with cancer.

Six year old, Avery Huffman, was diagnosed with DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma), a brain tumor found in the pons, part of the brainstem on the lower back of the brain, near the top of the spinal cord. Because of the location of the tumor, doctors said that the surgery would be impossible. No child should every have to go through this, but the college football world is slowly coming together to help support young Avery and her family.