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Childhood Cancer Survivor Recipients
Scholarship Recipients 2024-2025
Aaron Augustine
At center court seeing the faces of all of those I know that have been touched by cancer chanting for me, a cancer survivor, helped me realize my purpose in life.
Emma Baker
The truth is that pain, hurt and fear all have their place in survivorship as much as joy, fun and growth; it's about honoring the process of ups, downs and all arounds.
Emma Becker
I survived for a purpose...I choose to stay focused on aligning my gifts of kindness, compassion, and communication with my passion for making a positive difference in the lives of others.
Allison Biver
I have been forever changed, and I appreciate the smallest triumphs because of these overwhelming tragedies. I am a survivor.
Natalie Burraston
My experiences and my family's experiences with my cancer treatment have inspired me to seek a career in medicine...Being a survivor myself, I will also be able to give hope to patients and families going through their own trials.
Nina Calabria
I am on a new path now, healthy, and surrounded by new friends, some old friends, and new experiences.
Olivia Catayong
While having cancer may not steer my career path today, the experience as a whole gifted me with a compass that guides me to be inclusive and create community wherever I go.
Madison Cavanaugh
Each hole now represents what my successful cancer treatment afforded me - the opportunity to aim high for my life, celebrate my healthy body, and make a positive impact on the lives of those around me.
Rian Covington
No matter where I am, I think back to that Wednesday, and it reminds me of my purpose each and every day and what my survivorship means to me: to inspire others.
KellyAnne Crovello
My disease was nothing but a reminder that there is no fear as long as you don't show it.
Alana DeLisle
I want to teach others how to believe in conquering "the impossible," how to move past their limitations, even when it seems easier to give up.
Ryan Dellmyer
But now I have an opportunity to not only keep growing as a student and an engineer but as a person.
Vivian Eagle
The people I have met along this path have shown me what kindness, love, and generosity for others can accomplish, and as a teenager with cancer, my thoughts are now focused less upon myself and more on how I can make a difference in the lives of others.
Ava Ebling
In the future, I want to help anyone who receives a cancer diagnosis. I didn't let cancer stop me.
Troy Ennis
As I look towards the future, the impact that cancer left on me will forever fuel my motivation to succeed.
Max Frank
By using my own experience as a survivor and advocate, I hope to make a positive impact and bring hope to those who are fighting this disease.
Gabriella Furdek
I also rediscovered an interest I had lost since my diagnosis: a passion for medicine, and the empathy needed to bring light to darkness.
Molly Garretson
"Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You cannot withstand the storm,' and the warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.' I am that survivor: a warrior."
Avani Ghosh
As many challenges come my way, I've seemed to create an increasingly picturesque mosaic through resilience, understanding, and self-exploration to overcome them.
Malia Hadley
The tragedy that some viewed as catastrophic, I saw as a basis for my purpose in life.
Sydney Herstein
This experience has taught me to stop and smell the roses, to be an active participant instead of an observer, and to take advantage of all opportunities.
Margaux Hickman
Cancer has allowed me to help others impacted by childhood cancer through fundraising, advocacy, and volunteering, which has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
Emily Hirsch
Due to cancer, I gained closer bonds with my family and friends, I gained a love for leadership, I gained the courage to ask for help, and I gained an abundance of optimism.
Jonah Hurley
From accepting seemingly incandescent burns from vaccines to making friends with the looming possibility of death, I know how far I am willing to go to give back and how rewarding it is.
Sammy Husen
For me survivorship means living my life to the fullest unapologetically. Other children like Corey were not given a second chance, so it is my job to make the most of mine.
Ruby Kaufman
My journey as a survivor has exposed me to the importance of understanding not only the broken but the rebuilt; my sickness broke me but left me with pieces perfect to build the strongest tower I could.
Aurora Kimball
The perspective cancer gave me is life is wonderful, and to care for others, because we aren't alone. No matter the challenges I have faced, I was determined to get through them.
Eliza Kull
Battling cancer at age 13 produced in me unusual endurance and perseverance to face physical and emotional challenges in life, a heightened enjoyment of every blessing along the way, and a drive to pursue a career in nursing.
Trey Lucas
I know from experience my goals and dreams can change based on life's surprises. As long as I put in the work, have patience, and make decisions based on what is best for me, I'll be ready for whatever my future holds.
Alejandrina Marte
"I want to use my skills with art to make the world a better place. To inspire good and allow people with similar experiences to rise beyond their circumstances."
Cole Martin
Forever grateful for the endless support I received, I made it my mission to reciprocate it by raising money and awareness for the hospital and pediatric cancer non-profits.
Gwendolyn Mason
Survivorship is moving past staying alive and truly living...Survivorship is appreciating the world more deeply, and helping others do the same.
Jaiden Mehta
NCCS will help me positively impact the struggling community of cancer warriors by allowing me to use my time to innovate and stay dedicated to my studies instead of working to pay for college.
Cierra Morgan
I realized that I needed to separate my mind from my body. If I kept treating the two as one, I would be surviving to simply survive but not to truly live a life of fulfillment.
John Perricone
I look forward to being able to fully immerse myself in my passions, and find and create the support that keeps us thriving. Soon enough, I'll be giving back to my community in ways I've dreamed about for over a decade, and I'll know exactly who to thank.
Caleb Pipes
Because of the strengths that surviving cancer gave me, my freshman year was the greatest year of my life.
Gabriela Riquino
I want to show other kids battling cancer they can still live life to the fullest and be normal kids; cancer doesn't define us.
Nataleigh Roberts
I cannot say what my life would be like now if I had not battled cancer, but I can certainly say that the battle and its lessons have shaped my life significantly since. I do have scars, but I have grown as a person. Cancer did not kill me, and I am much stronger.
Tyler Roney
Cancer, paradoxically, strengthened a young man in love with life who aspires to conquer challenges and solve problems. I've applied this grit in many ways over the past decade and am ready to change the world.
Alexandra Sadoff
I realize that I matured through my treatment and as I moved through survivorship. My eyes were opened to the hardships of others, and I became more empathetic for those going through what I now have behind me.
Logan Schneider
I simply cannot imagine what my life would be like now, seeing as I've spent so long as a survivor...I am eternally grateful for my family, friends, peers, and teachers who have all helped to guide me through this journey
Mary Shannon
This is what survivorship means to me; all of the lessons that cancer has taught me so that I could become a stronger person, ready to conquer anything life throws at me.
Emma Smith
Cancer helped me to see that I want to help people who are like me, and I have created my career path based on this. With guidance and positivity, I know I can make this goal and idea I was given a reality.
Josephine Smith
Surviving cancer has changed the goals I have for my education and my future career. More importantly, cancer has changed who I am. I am a survivor and I always will be!
David Szklaruk Traipe
This world can take you, and any potential legacy, without any warning. What matters is how you spend your impermanence: either chasing after superficial numerical values that can't define a person or living each moment like it's your last and squeezing the life out of every drop of joy it can offer you.
Mikari Tarpley
When I doubted whether I could be stronger than this disease, the voice would cry out, "Fight it, conquer it, and live to tell your story."
Devan Tatlow
Surviving cancer has made me grateful for life's highs-and even its lows. Simply being alive is a blessing. Survival has made me attuned to people's hidden struggles, and I never take for granted waking up each morning.
Ella Terrio
I have grown to be resilient, empathetic, and knowledgeable through my journey with cancer. I am more than capable of taking a leap of faith, and embarking on this path.
Sophia Thompson
My diagnosis does not define who I am, but it has changed my outlook on life and turned me into the person I am today.
Isabella Toth
My encounter with cancer ceased to be a negative experience as soon as I shifted my perspective. Armed with humor and hopefulness, I refashioned the hardships my illness bestowed upon me into tools that shared an optimistic outlook with others.
Katelyn Tran
We cannot always control the obstacles in our path, but we can control the new direction we take onward.
Audrey Turner
"Perspective" is a word always present in my home. We see things differently than most. We don't sweat the small things, we celebrate them.
Sydney Visser
Survivorship to me is living your own truth. Living your life without any model, actor, or tv show telling you how to look.
Jack Watson
Maybe I wanted to be viewed as more than the boy, but in neglecting him, I made myself less than I am with him by my side. He is my foundation. He is a survivor...He is a miraculous and unforgettable gift.
Piper Wiegert
Because of my difficult experience, and the people that helped me through my illness, my ultimate goal is to help others around me.
Alexis Williams
Before my diagnosis, I was living a carefree life that was a bit self centered. Now, after this cancer journey, I have been given life lessons that many people twice my age have and never will experience. This experience has increased my faith in God and my story of hope and resilience.
Madelyn Wilson
The mindset around mental health in our society must adapt, so that we can help those who need it the most...I am so excited to be a part of the change. This is what survivorship means to me!
Montana Zdroik
Life is often unpredictable. It is easy to get caught up in wondering why something happened, but cancer taught me that its not about what you could have done to prevent it, its about what you make out of your situation.
