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October 25, 2007

Cal goalkeeper fights cancer with help from her friends

The diagnosis came a few weeks ago for California goalkeeper Jorden LaFontaine-Kussmann - lymphoma.
Now the 18-year-old freshman is about to undergo her second round of chemotherapy to attack a large mass in the middle of her chest. When she told her friends on the men's soccer team she will soon be bald, they beat her to it: They shaved their heads in support.