2020 is a year that I will remember forever. Not because of the pandemic, necessarily, but because within the first week of this year, we received news that my wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer – Stage Three.
Anyone who knows Chelsea understands how shocking this was for us. She is a coach at Crossfit RX in Candler Park, the healthiest, most active person I know. On top of that, she turns just 30 years old next month. This was an important lesson in humility and vulnerability for us all: the perils of life do not discriminate.
Since early January, I have juggled the three worlds of cancer treatment, collegiate athletics, and society, while they intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.