During his five years at Jamestown College, not much has been able to slow up JJ Koerber.

So it's not too surprising that cancer has done little to derail him either.

Koerber, the top distance runner for the Jimmies virtually since stepping on campus in 2006, had been experiencing shooting pains in his groin dating back a couple of years, but he kept running through it. Finally last summer he decided to get it checked out.

After meeting with a specialist, he knew surgery was inevitable after a calcium deposit was discovered. But during the surgery, it was found that one of his testicles had cancer and that it too needed to be removed. Learning he had cancer was a shock, especially considering that initially he had been told there was only a three percent chance the growth would be cancerous.