Eighteen-Year-Old Basketball Player With Inoperable Brain Cancer Gets Her Own Wheaties Box

Last Sunday Lauren Hill played Mount St. Joseph’s Season Opener, hitting the first and last baskets in front of a crowd of thousands that gathered to see the eighteen-year-old in her first college game. Hill was slated to play as a forward for Mount St. Joseph until being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor; the crowd that turned out to see her raised a collective $70,000 for The Cure Starts Now Foundation.

Now, in addition to being awarded the Pat Summitt Most Courageous award by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, the 18-year-old has also been given what the Washington Post describes as “one of the singular honors in the world of athletics”: she’s featured on a box of Wheaties.

Athletes who have previously received the honor include Muhammad Ali, Lou Gehrig, Michael Phelps, and Tiger Woods.

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