Last September, Katie Schumacher-Cawley found a lump in her armpit. Worried, she visited her doctor. In the parking lot outside her daughter’s high school volleyball match, she received a life-changing phone call.

“I waited outside for a bit and sat in my car and listened to the doctor,” Schumacher-Cawley, 45, head coach of Penn State University’s women’s volleyball team, told TODAY’s Jill Martin. “(My doctor) said, ‘You know you’re triple positive (breast cancer) and there’s a lot of treatments for it. We’re going to get you set up with the best doctors.’”

Schumacher-Cawley was in the middle of coaching the Penn State women’s volleyball season. Despite her Stage 2 cancer diagnosis and undergoing chemotherapy, she continued to coach the team through 14 weeks of practice and 37 matches.

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