Lauren Hill, the 19-year-old college basketball player whose fight with terminal brain cancer brought hope to many, died early Friday morning. Hill died at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The Mount St. Joseph student decided to play on the freshman basketball team even with her inoperable brain tumor. She played the team’s opener against Franklin College and scored two points.
“This was my dream, to score on this floor, and it felt amazing,” Hill told WLWT. Over a year ago she developed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).Hill’s efforts raised more than $1.4 million for DIPG research. "She's made an impact on the world, more so than me — more than I ever will do," her coach Dan Benjamin told the Associated Press. Hill explained,“Every moment you get with someone is a moment that [is] blessed, really blessed.” Hill was the 2014 homecoming queen, and in January returned to her alma mater to crown the new king and queen.
Watch her final game:
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