AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. - Marie Siler has a birthday coming up on Oct. 8, but the athletic trainer for Auburn’s volleyball team plans to celebrate the day before, and not just because that’s when the Tigers host in-state rival Alabama.
Oct. 7 will mark seven years of Marie being cancer-free.
“My birthday’s not really important to me anymore,” Siler said. “My cancer-free date is very important.”
Two years after earning her master’s in exercise science, Siler worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Hofstra in Long Island, New York.
Hofstra softball coach Bill Edwards grew tired of Siler coughing in his huddle, telling her to see a doctor.