Alyson Habetz was coaching her softball team—The Ragin Cajuns at University of Lousianna—to prepare for a tournament when she felt something that didn't feel right. She scheduled a mammogram and was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's been through four out of six chemo treatments over the summer and will follow up with radiation. She is determined not to let her diagnosis or treatment interrupt her job.

"I'll only be out a week for surgery — probably toward the end of October, which kind of works...I'll be here for all the games in fall ball. I'll be good to go."

She wanted to tell her team in person, which meant waiting until everyone was back at school, hoping that no one would find out before she could meet with them. "I wanted to be able to look them in the face and tell them everything's OK. Nothing has changed. I'm still the same person. I wanted them to know I'm not going to be any easier on them because of this."

"At the end of the day, I need my team," she said. "They're my family. I want them to know that I'm not going to be any different. Sure, there might be times when I might only be 70%, but they're going to get 100% of my 70%. I need them to know that."

Read more of Habetz's story here.