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  • Colgate Coach Casey Vogt: Fighting Through the Pain
    Monday, Mar 21, 2011

    It started with a backache. Colgate offensive line coach Casey Vogt chalked it up to long car rides as he recruited the newest class of Raider football players. He eventually consulted a team doctor who ordered x-rays and a MRI. Turns out, the culprit had nothing to do with recruiting, car rides or coaching in general. Vogt had a tumor on his spinal cord.

    “I was shocked,” Vogt said.

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  • Dana Bible: Coaching Life's Lessons
    Sunday, Mar 20, 2011

    The date was November 20, 2009. North Carolina State Offensive Coordinator Dana Bible even recalls the time -- 5:35 PM. He was told he had Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia or cancer of the blood.

    “I was certain they were wrong,” Coach Bible said. “That night, as the team was headed to play Virginia Tech, I was going to the hospital.”

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  • Deloris Brobeck: A Champion Worker
    Sunday, Mar 20, 2011

    Her involvement in the rare disease cause started back in 2002, yet for Deloris Brobeck, she had no idea what she was getting into. Three football student-athletes at Penn State asked to her to be the advisor of the Uplifting Athletes chapter on campus.

    “I was told I didn’t have to do much,” Brobeck says. “I was glad to help.”

    For Deloris, she might not have had to do much, but...

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In Memory of Joe Paterno

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In Memory of Joe Paterno

Joe Paterno was an honorary chair of the Uplifting Athletes Capital Campaign.  This is the transcript to the speech I p…

Scott Shirley hopes Uplifting Athletes will help Nittany Nation begin healing process

January 10, 2012
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Patriot News writer, Stefanie Loh features Uplifting Athlete’s Executive Director, Scott Shirley in this news arti…

Uplifting Athletes Recaps 2011 and Looks Forward to 2012

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Uplifting Athletes Recaps 2011 and Looks Forward to 2012

Dear Friends of Uplifting Athletes, I hope that you are enjoying a prosperous start to the New Year. As this is a time f…

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