Specifically about the efficacy (and timing) of one-year athletic scholarship renewing: Alexis Kaufusi cut from BYU women’s basketball team
The one thing Alexis Kaufusi held onto for strength and hope while she battled cancer slipped through her fingers Thursday afternoon.
The 22-year-old Timpview High graduate was cut from the BYU women’s basketball team seven weeks before what would have been her senior year.
“I was completely blindsided,” said Kaufusi, who was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on Feb. 3, 2011. “I didn’t see it coming. (Head coach Jeff Judkins) just kept saying that he thinks this is what’s best for the team right now.”