April 14, 2026
By Alex Byington, On3: Former USC long snapper Jake Olson‘s story of perseverance as the first completely blind Division I football player was an inspiration to fans everywhere when he appeared in a handful of Trojans games in 2017-18. Nearly a decade later, Olson is finding inspiration from another — his 1-year-old son, Rowan, who recently beat the same rare form of eye cancer that took his father’s eyesight as a teenager.
One-year-old Rowan Olson recently celebrated the end his treatment for retinoblastomo — the exact same ocular cancer that resulted in his father losing his left eye at 10 months old and his right eye when he was 12 in 2009 — by ringing the bell at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, according to FOX 11-LA.
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