Thursday, 09 September 2010 05:00
Locked in a battle for his life, Ryan Sparkman kept his role as a defender for the Cedar Hill soccer team. Kept coming out to football practice, even on the bad days. Even on the days that his head coach told Sparkman he could take a break.
But that’s not the attitude Sparkman took into his battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a deadly form of cancer that doctors diagnosed in his body Feb. 2.
“The kid was doing chemo treatments during spring football,” Cedar Hill football coach Joey McGuire said. “He had a port in his body, over his ribs on the right side. And when he came out to practice, you could tell he didn’t feel good.”
