{"id":43904,"date":"2015-09-28T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=43904"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:21:58","slug":"monday-motivation-kane-hogan-high-school-football-leukemia-mm-092815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/fitness\/monday-motivation-kane-hogan-high-school-football-leukemia-mm-092815\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Inspiring H.S. Football Player Battling Leukemia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo:\u00a0Courtesy of the Hogan Family<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inspiration comes in all kinds of unlikely forms: a septuagenarian CrossFitter<\/a>, the denial of health insurance, that 10,000th burpee<\/a>. But perhaps the most unlikely \u2014 and yet totally inspiring \u2014 person we\u2019ve come across is 15-year-old Kane Hogan, an Alabama high schooler with a devastating case of leukemia.<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/strong>THIS is How You Cross a Finish Lane<\/a><\/p>\n

As first reported by Sports Illustrated<\/em> as a part of their\u00a0High School Athlete of the Month series<\/a>, Hogan was a\u00a0freshman football player; and then, just months later, was too weak to do a squat. Soon after, he was diagnosed with leukemia.<\/p>\n

His grandfather, Billy Parker, told SI<\/em> that everything happened fast. \u201cWe were deer hunting one weekend and next weekend he was rushed to St. Jude,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But what makes Kane such a special kid is that he isn\u2019t letting himself wallow in his own sorrows. Instead, he\u2019s become an inspiration (and unofficial captain) to the Danville High School football team, participating in practices and games, if even from the sidelines. And it has an effect on the team, too: \u201cYou can see it every time he walks into the locker room,\u201d said the team\u2019s coach, Josh LouAllen. \u201cThere\u2019s a sense of energy that comes over this team when he shows up.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/strong>Inside the Brain of 93-Year-Old Athlete Olga Kotelko<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s also amazing, though, is that his off-the-field efforts in supporting the team (at times until he was too weak to stand any longer) have been paying off: Danville kicked off the current season 3-0 after winning only two games total last year.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re asking you to take a step back<\/a> from your day and spend the next few minutes learning more about Kane Hogan in the video below. His wise-beyond-his-years perspective will leave you feeling hopeful about your community, your life and those around you. Because the power of just one person \u2014 in this case, a 15-year-old \u2014 could\u00a0motivate you every<\/em> day.<\/p>\n

Kane Hogan: SI’s High School Athlete of the Month<\/h3>\n

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One 15-year-old football player\u2019s battle with leukemia will help put life’s ups and downs into perspective. Today’s Monday Motivation: Kane Hogan, SI’s high school athlete of the month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":43909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[47,224,277,103,141,347,374,96],"class_list":["post-43904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","category-fitness","tag-family","tag-illness","tag-monday-motivation","tag-motivation","tag-sports","tag-tax1family","tag-tax2teens","tag-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}