SI High School Athlete of the Month: Kane Hogan

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Nov 2, 2015

SI High School Athlete of the Month: Kane Hogan

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On Friday, Oct. 30, Sports Illustrated traveled to Danville, Ala., and brought along special guest, former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson, to recognize Kane Hogan of the Danville High football team as the SI High School Athlete of the Month for September, presented by the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Danville (Ala.) High fullback Kane Hogan (#14) was diagnosed with leukemia in January but has continued to show up at games and practices to cheer on and motivate his football team. Here he smiles with some teammates for a souvenir photo on the "cover" of SI.

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John Parker Wilson, who played quarterback for Alabama from 2005 to '08, also as #14, came out to help honor Kane, a huge Alabama fan, at halftime of Danville's last football game of the season.

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Kane Hogan was diagnosed with leukemia in January but has continued to show up at games and practices to cheer on and motivate his football team. Here he smiles with a teammate for a souvenir photo on the "cover" of SI.

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Sports Illustrated and the U.S. Marines were on hand at Danville High earlier in the day to give out water bottles, sunglasses and copies of the issue in which Kane's story appeared.

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A spontaneous push-up contest broke out during the event presented by the U.S. Marine Corps to recognize Kane Hogan as Sports Illustrated’s High School Athlete of the Month.

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Kane gives an interview to a CBS news affiliate ahead of an event to honor him as the SI High School Athlete of the Month.

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Kane Hogan signs a copy of the issue of Sports Illustrated in which he appeared.

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Kane gives an interview to a CBS news affiliate ahead of an event to honor him as the SI High School Athlete of the Month.

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A pep rally in the Danville High gym got the crowd excited for the evening's football festivities.

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Team boosters decorate the football stadium. Kane's community would raise nearly $1,200 during the game that evening to donate to his family's expenses.

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Sports Illustrated managing editor Chris Stone talks to a television news crew about Kane's selection as SI's first High School Athlete of the Month pick of the 2015-16 school year.

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Though the Falkville Blue Devils' school colors are blue and white and the Danville Hawks' are purple and black, almost the entire crowd wore orange—the official color of blood cancer awareness—in honor of Kane.

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Kane takes a friend up on it after jokingly being asked to autograph his forehead.

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Even the water boys got in on the orange act.

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Danville High football players each wore an orange "Super Kane" decal with his initial K inside the Superman symbol on their helmets this season.

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The U.S. Marine Corps held a pull-up bar contest throughout the evening's festivities.

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Former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson, SI High School Athlete of the Month Kane Hogan and Sgt Lucas Spann of the U.S. Marine Corps chat during the game.

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SI managing editor Chris Stone addresses Kane and his family (far right), at midfield during halftime as Sgt Lucas Spann of the U.S. Marine Corps and former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson look on.

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Former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson congratulates Kane on his award as he is presented with a letterman's jacket and a framed copy of his story in the pages of SI.

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John Parker Wilson and Kane were bombarded with requests for autographs after the halftime ceremony.

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Danville would go on to win the game 45-35 and end its season with a 6-5 record, including a preseason win in which Kane ran out onto the field with his teammates, determined to contribute to the team even though he could not play.