ESU Student Ryan Smith Featured by People Magazine

Molly Gorczyca and Ryan Smith

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East Stroudsburg University student and men’s basketball player Ryan Smith, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in summer 2019, is featured by People Magazine after a tweet by his girlfriend, Molly Gorczyca, about their meeting and relationship gathered more than 1.7 million likes by mid-October.

Smith and Gorczyca, both collegiate athletes – Smith was the 2019 PSAC East Men’s Basketball Freshman of the Year at ESU, and Gorczyca is a field hockey athlete at Rowan – met through their time receiving treatment for AML at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Gorczyca shared their story as part of the “how it started/how it’s going” trend which garnered national interest.