Chip Silverman

Imagine being a mother of four young children, a lacrosse coach who led her team from Loyola College to be the top in the country, and battling cancer for seven years. Then, the ball drops and the cancer is no longer operable. Instead of being sidelined, Diane Geppi-Aikens gathered her team together and told them that they would have one last season together and they were all going to give to their max. Her former students and colleagues tell of the many ways in which Diane inspired them to show more give more of themselves than they ever thought possible. To read that someone asked Diane how she could coach with her left side paralyzed and in a wheelchair, she replied, "Well, my mouth still works!" makes the reader realize what an extraordinary woman she was. show less