In the week leading up to his team’s big game against No. 3 Ole Miss, Florida coach Jim McElwain reached out via Twitter to a young cancer patient who’s fighting a much bigger battle.
Twitter user, @hey_its_kathryn, tweeted a picture to McElwain on Tuesday of a boy holding a sign that read, “Dear Gators, I’m beating cancer. Please beat Ole Miss.”
McElwain responded by saying, “Keep fighting with everything you’ve got, buddy…We will keep fighting with everything we’ve got to win for you.”
According to one of @hey_its_kathryn’s previous tweets that included a link to a Go Fund Me Page, the little boy’s name is Jay Ryon and is currently in a battle with leukemia.
https://twitter.com/hey_its_kathryn/status/648996797348741120
Keep fighting with everything you've got, buddy… We will keep fighting with everything we've got to win for you! https://t.co/xw6TFW1z9D
— Jim McElwain (@CoachMcElwain) September 30, 2015
Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.
