Per usatodayhss.com:
When Trisha Johnson watched her son, Evan, start his first boys volleyball match in two years for Phoenix (Ariz.) Desert Vista last week, she had to hold back tears.
After all, she knows just how far Evan, 17, has come after missing all of his junior year and watching matches from a wheelchair or on crutches. She knows how he battled through eight months of intense chemotherapy and how he learned to walk again after his femur, riddled with bone cancer, was replaced with a titanium rod.
Now, he moves along the court gracefully, coming up with digs, serving aces and setting up teammates for kills as libero for the 13-5 Thunder, ranked 44th in the nation by MaxPreps.
“When I watch him, it is literally a miracle,” Trisha said. “Even his surgeons said, doing the things he’s doing, it’s just a miracle.”