The Reno High graduate and distance runner for the Wolf Pack was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin Lymphoma in March and has begun chemotherapy treatments that will run for at least six months.
Twelve hours after Wolf Pack distance runner Erika Root posted a personal best in the 3,000 meters at the Mountain West indoor track and field championships, she was on a hospital bed in Las Vegas.
The doctor told her she almost certainly had cancer.
At that moment, Root had been up nearly 24 full hours. She had awakened at 6 a.m. the morning of Feb.