BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WDRB) -- The volleyball coach at Western Kentucky University is offering a semester's tuition to a student who is a match for a bone marrow transplant for a former player.
WBKO reports Louisville native and former WKU volleyball star Alyssa Cavanaugh was recently diagnosed with leukemia.
The school's head volleyball coach, Travis Hudson, wants to help find a match by offering up tuition. "I started thinking that there's 19 or 20,000 students that are the perfect age range that could potentially end up being someone who could be the difference and save her life," Hudson said. "If any student on this campus ends up being Alyssa's match, I'm going to pick up a semester's tuition for them."
Hudson explained his decision for offering the tuition payment to a matching donor.
"I wanted to find a way to impact all the students and entice all the students to take five minutes out of their life and get registered and see if, hopefully, we can find the match," Hudson said.
Cavanaugh was a high school All-American player at Assumption.
She was also a four time All-American at WKU and the Conference USA Female Athlete of the Year in 2017. She graduated from WKU last year and was diagnosed with leukemia in September, according to WBKO.
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