There are people who cover football for a living, and then there are people who live to cover football. And Holly Rowe, unmistakably, belongs to the latter group. The timeline of everything in college football, from camps and kickoff to injuries and recoveries, has mirrored her own seasons of grit, bravery, and survival. Holly Rowe was diagnosed with desmoplastic melanoma in May 2015, and she started administering treatment and going through surgeries.

But those treatments didn’t help. Holly underwent yet another surgery 6 months later, but in August 2016, she got the news that her cancer had spread to her lungs. “This could be a death sentence. You need to start preparing for this. This is going to be hard.” Those were the words of her doctor as she revisited her battle in conversation

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