Tucker williams, braver than brave, shawn williams, lymphomaįor Tucker, it's the kind of emotional lift that can help. But the pain he's facing now is something quite different, as he copes with the diagnosis of his son with Burkitt’s Lymphoma, a form of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.ĭuring one of the stoppages of Saturday night's game against the Toronto Rock in Buffalo, the entire crowd at HSBC Arena sang to Tucker who had just turned eight and received the video greeting via Facetime: Williams, the 39-year-old captain of the Brooklin Redmen in Major Series Lacrosse and a vital offensive star for the National Lacrosse League's Buffalo Bandits, has been through a lot of physical pain through his illustrious career in one of the world's most physical sports. This month, the community is bonding around Shawn Williams, a star player in the National Lacrosse League and a Canadian box lacrosse icon from the Oshawa area, whose just-turned-eight-year-old son Tucker being diagnosed with lymphoma. Perhaps the clearest example of this is during times of adversity and challenge.

Like other niche sports – rugby and running come to mind as good comparatives and there’s surely many others – the community is well connected and ready to help in the spirit of camaraderie. The lacrosse community: it may be one of the strongest sporting families around – a tight-knit group of people passionate and loyal to a tee to their sport, and to those involved with it.

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