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Cal volleyball player Savannah Rennie, who had a liver transplant in 2016 and is now undergoing chemo for non-Hodgkin post-transplant lymphoma, explains the bond with her teammates prior to a game earlier this month.
It was just more than a year ago, on Oct. 7, when Savannah Rennie took the volleyball court. It was a Friday, her college debut against Utah. The ball sailed toward Rennie on the right side of the floor. She leapt up and smashed it down, nailing her first kill.
Her teammates screamed and hugged her, tapped her on the head.