Jillion Potter took another step in her comeback from cancer, making the 12-player U.S. rugby team as captain for the Women’s Sevens Series season opener in two weeks in Dubai.
She also proved U.S. soccer legend Abby Wambach right.
Potter, 29, was a key cog in the U.S. sevens team when she was diagnosed with stage III Synovial sarcoma in September 2014, three months after waking up with swelling underneath her jaw, what she later learned was a cancerous tumor.
As Potter began fighting the rare, soft-tissue cancer, she received an email on Oct.