An inspiring 23 year-old Yale student Mandi Schwartz, died April 3, 2011 after a 27 month battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
The young hockey star was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia Dec. 8, 2008 during her junior year at Yale. Schwartz played forward for the Yale Bulldogs and also attended Canadian women's team camps. She was engaged to engineering student Kaylem Prefontaine of Rockglen, Sask., and they had planned a wedding for the summer of 2012.
On Jan. 8, 2010, after five rounds of strong chemotherapy treatment and 130 days in the hospital she was put into remission and returned to Yale for the spring semester. Schwartz had planned to return to playing hockey in the 2010-11 season, but in April of 2010 she learned that the cancer had returned.
In September 2010, Mandi received a stem cell transplant at the Fred Hutchinson cancer research center in Seattle, but a biopsy conducted in that following December revealed the cancer had returned.
With a promising future, the Yale hockey star, student, daughter, and friend, Mandi Schwarts was unable to pull threw and lost her battle the following spring of 2011.
Yale has now named its annual marrow donor registry drive in Mandi's honor.
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