Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points.
Friends, I am sick as a dog right now. Something about the temperature going from 70 to 28 to 65 to 30 all in a week must have nuked my immune system.
Luckily, I’m not the only person who writes this newsletter. Let me pass the mic to KC Smurthwaite for the morning, who has a story to share….
The surgeons and doctors at the Zimmer Cancer Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina, have become familiar with a schedule most medical teams never need to study ... the NCAA recruiting calendar for women’s volleyball.
They know when dead periods hit. They know when recruiting ramps up. They know when spring practice and weights begin.
They do it for one of their patients, Lorelle “Lo” Hoyer, of the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, who has had to learn how to fit treatments into the life of a Division I head coach.
“We like dead periods when it comes to cancer treatments,” one of her doctors joked.
That line works because Hoyer would not have it any other way.
“Rebuilding the Seahawks is priority one,” Hoyer said. “Cancer, we game plan around UNCW volleyball.”
That mindset has defined the past several months for the UNCW volleyball coach. Around the program and hospital, the words used to describe Hoyer sound familiar: competitive, relentless, wired to solve problems. The same traits that made her a successful program builder now shape how she approaches one of the hardest challenges of her life.
Cancer.
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