After months of battling cancer and coaching full-time, Ron Rivera and his family received news they had been praying for.
The Washington Football Team head coach is officially cancer-free, his daughter Courtney tweeted on Thursday. She received the call from her parents as they left the hospital, where a PET scan confirmed the good news.
Rivera had been undergoing treatment for squamous cell carcinoma, a skin cancer on his neck. He completed seven weeks of treatments in late October, one day after his team beat the Dallas Cowboys.
"'Inspirational' is casually thrown around but this is the real thing," Washington team president Jason Wright tweeted.