OMAHA, Neb. —

The Westside girls golf team is striving for its first state title since 1990, driven by more than just the pursuit of trophies, as they rally around their head coach, Jered Hellman, whose wife, Sara, is battling stage 4 colon cancer.

"It's a sport that you don't get to control the elements," Jered said. "I've learned that whatever something looks on paper, you gotta go play the game. You still got to tee it up."

Golf is a lot like life. No matter how rough, you have to play where it lies.

"Right now I just my life is a triple bogey that I have to re-tee because the ball's in the water because my wife is battling to survive," he said.

Over the summer, the Hellmans received life-changing news from her doctors.

"I was going in for a completely different procedure," Sara s

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