Camp Good Days and Special Times’ Chairman and Founder, Gary Mervis, has announced it will host a special event, “Life, Cancer and the NFL…An Evening With NY Giants’ Mark Herzlich,” at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, at the Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St., Rochester.
"Two years ago, I was told I might never walk again," Herzlich said on his Twitter account. “Just walked off the plane in Indy to play in the Super Bowl. Take that cancer!”
One week later, Herzlich found himself celebrating at midfield with his teammates as part of the 2011 Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
Herzlich grew up a star athlete in three sports before attending Boston College where he was one of the top defensive players in all of college football. Following a 2008 season where he was a first team All-American and the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, Herzlich was forced to sit out the entire 2009 season after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Herzlich fought through treatment and was back on the field in 2010. Herzlich started in all 13 games that season and finished third on the team with 65 tackles. Despite a strong final season with Boston College, Herzlich went undrafted by all 32 teams in the 2011 NFL Draft due to concerns over his medical history. However, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin saw the fire and intensity that drove him and brought him to training camp that summer. Two months later he was a starting linebacker for the team.
“This special evening will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear at length from Mark, about his football career thus far and playing both in college and as part of a Super Bowl winning team, but also about his courageous battle with cancer,” Mervis said in a news release. "The evening will be casual and fun; with stadium-style foods and for me personally, it will be a very special way to commemorate what would have been my daughter Teddi’s birthday.”
Tickets for “Life, Cancer, and the NFL…An Evening With NY Giants’ Mark Herzlich” are $60 per person and are available by contacting Camp Good Days at 585-624-5555 or at www.campgooddays.org.
Camp Good Days and Special Times’ Chairman and Founder, Gary Mervis, has announced it will host a special event, “Life, Cancer and the NFL…An Evening With NY Giants’ Mark Herzlich,” at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, at the Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St., Rochester.
"Two years ago, I was told I might never walk again," Herzlich said on his Twitter account. “Just walked off the plane in Indy to play in the Super Bowl. Take that cancer!”
One week later, Herzlich found himself celebrating at midfield with his teammates as part of the 2011 Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
Herzlich grew up a star athlete in three sports before attending Boston College where he was one of the top defensive players in all of college football. Following a 2008 season where he was a first team All-American and the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, Herzlich was forced to sit out the entire 2009 season after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Herzlich fought through treatment and was back on the field in 2010. Herzlich started in all 13 games that season and finished third on the team with 65 tackles. Despite a strong final season with Boston College, Herzlich went undrafted by all 32 teams in the 2011 NFL Draft due to concerns over his medical history. However, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin saw the fire and intensity that drove him and brought him to training camp that summer. Two months later he was a starting linebacker for the team.
“This special evening will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear at length from Mark, about his football career thus far and playing both in college and as part of a Super Bowl winning team, but also about his courageous battle with cancer,” Mervis said in a news release. "The evening will be casual and fun; with stadium-style foods and for me personally, it will be a very special way to commemorate what would have been my daughter Teddi’s birthday.”
Tickets for “Life, Cancer, and the NFL…An Evening With NY Giants’ Mark Herzlich” are $60 per person and are available by contacting Camp Good Days at 585-624-5555 or at www.campgooddays.org.
