Chesapeake senior basketball player Kara Blanchard helps outfit a classmate in a T-shirt ahead of the school's upcoming MS Awareness Night. On Dec. 12, at the suggestion of an ophthalmologist, the Chesapeake senior and her parents went to Johns Hopkins to determine the cause of her symptoms. “I thought I would be wheelchair bound.”The tears dried, and Blanchard returned to Pasadena for basketball practice later that day. “To have them wear Chesapeake T-shirts, it was an amazing show of solidarity.”Baltimore Ravens players Crockett Gillmore, left, and Brandon Williams pose with Chesapeake senior basketball player Kara Blanchard while helping out with a T-shirt drive for the school's upcoming MS Awareness Night. Blanchard is typically the Cougars’ first player off the bench, but she’ll be in the starting lineup against the Gophers.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 21:08 UTC