.....Advertisement.....
.....Advertisement.....

Hokies kept fighting for cancer survivor

Posted September 6, 2012
Sharon McCloskey is senior associate athletic director at Virginia Tech. Her duties include supervising the women's basketball, women's lacrosse and women's soccer teams. She will be inducted into the school's hall of fame tonight. | Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times

Sharon McCloskey is senior associate athletic director at Virginia Tech. Her duties include supervising the women's basketball, women's lacrosse and women's soccer teams. She will be inducted into the school's hall of fame tonight. | Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times

Tonight, the major television networks and a number of cable channels will broadcast a “Stand Up To Cancer” special.

Sharon McCloskey has already answered that challenge.

McCloskey, who rose from working as a receptionist in the Virginia Tech football office to become the No. 2 administrator in the athletic department, will be inducted into the university’s athletic hall of fame tonight — two months after her final chemotherapy treatment.

Read more.

Print Friendly

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>