IN THE NEWS | Sparks Fly Between Man and Woman Battling Same Cancer: 'A Flower Growing Between the Concrete'

ESU student and men's basketball player Ryan Smith, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in summer 2019, was featured by People Magazine after a tweet by his girlfriend, Molly Gorczyca, about their meeting and relationship gathered more than 1.7 million likes by mid-October 2020.