BOONE, N.C. — Sports fans love comeback stories, and App State Softball has its own inspiring comeback story in junior pitcher Sejal Neas, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at a young age.
Now in her third year at App State, a healthy Neas continues to excel as a top pitcher for the Mountaineers, competing with a battle-tested mentality shaped by the difficult challenges she faced early in her life.
Neas
was diagnosed when she was two and a half years old and would fight her cancer until she was about 5, when her fight resulted in her being declared cancer-free.