Vancouver Whitecaps FC are honoured to have Evelyn as Kid Captain of the club's home match against CF Montreal at Rio Tinto Stadium on May 8.
At first, there were little signs that something wasn’t quite right with two-year-old Evelyn. She stopped running and climbing on the playground—something she greatly enjoyed. She also grew increasingly lethargic.
Then one day, the formerly active girl couldn’t walk across the floor. It was as though Evelyn’s dad, Christopher, was seeing his daughter physically regress before his eyes.
“That’s when things really came to a head, and I knew something was wrong,” he said.