Irvine junior Alex Suarez feared he might not be able to play baseball again after finding out he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in January, requiring surgery.
“I was shocked,” said Suarez, a member of the Irvine varsity team. “My first question was ‘will I be able to play baseball again? How long will it be until I can come back and play’?”
Suarez knew something wasn’t right earlier in the year.
“I had headaches for a week; I didn’t know what was up,” Suarez said. “And we finally went to the doctor and they finally discovered the tumor.