BOULDER, Colorado — Deion Sanders already has a victory underneath his belt in 2025. The Colorado College Buffaloes soccer coach introduced Monday that he beat bladder most cancers.
The CU Buffs coach addressed his well being Monday on the CU Landing Membership adjoining to Folsom Discipline. He was flanked on the desk by Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of Urologic Oncology at CU Most cancers Heart, and by Lauren Askevold, CU’s assistant athletic coach.
Sanders was identified with an aggressive cancerous tumor in his bladder throughout a well being check-up this previous spring.
The coach had his bladder eliminated. Kukreja stated he’s now cancer-free.
“We’re gonna beat this, (aren’t) we?” Sanders requested Kukreja Monday.
“It’s crushed,” she replied.
Sanders, 57, has coached by well being challenges earlier than. The Professional Soccer Corridor-of-Famer missed three video games with Jackson State in 2021. He’s battled blood clot points previously, and had surgical procedure to deal with a clot in his proper leg in 2023.
Askevold stated the tumor was identified throughout CU’s spring soccer practices this previous April and that the surgical procedure was accomplished by early Could.
The CU coach was notably absent from June camps in Boulder, resulting in a number of reviews that Sanders was nonetheless coping with an unspecified well being difficulty that will hold him away from campus.
The Florida native told Asante Samuel that he lately had misplaced 14 kilos. Sanders stated Monday that he’d dropped about 25 kilos.
Coach Prime inspired males to “get checked … with out fantastic individuals like this, I wouldn’t be sitting right here at the moment.”
The Buffs opened their preseason camp this week and can begin the 2025 season on August 29 at Folsom Discipline towards Georgia Tech. Coach Prime indicated he supposed to return to work as regular when requested how a lot he had relied on his workers whereas he was getting remedy.
“Depend on my workers?” Sanders replied. “I’m again, child.”
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