LOS ANGELES — From Jillion Potter’s standpoint, 2014 was a great year. She got to play in a rugby World Cup. She traveled to Alaska and Paris. She and her wife, Carol Fabrizio, made a home in Denver. They got a puppy.
Life happened. So did cancer.
That Potter, 30, is headed to Rio for rugby’s return to the Olympics speaks not just to the perspective she carried through cancer treatment but to the work ethic that got her back on the U.S. team just more than a year since she was declared cancer free.
“I think rugby gave me a big light at the end of the tunnel,” Potter says.