SALT LAKE CITY — Since birth, little Hayes Tate has been a fighter. Now, 11 months later, Hayes fights to beat the odds of an extremely rare brain cancer.
Hayes is a triplet and the youngest of six children born to Savanna and Steve Tate, a former University of Utah football athlete who played from 2004-06. When the Tates found out they were pregnant for the fourth time, news of triplets was shocking, as would be expected. The doctor, though, was not optimistic that Savanna would carry all three children because there were only two heartbeats on the ultrasound.