Caroline Diem holds a University of Tennessee women’s basketball sweatshirt gifted to her by Diamond DeShields, a standout Lady Volunteers player who surprised the former South Forsyth girls basketball player Thursday before the Lady War Eagles’ game. Diem would have been a likely senior starter for South but is instead battling Hodgkin’s lymphona since she was diagnosed with the cancer just before the start of the season.

Caroline Diem holds a University of Tennessee women’s basketball sweatshirt gifted to her by Diamond DeShields, a standout Lady Volunteers player who surprised the former South Forsyth girls basketball player Thursday before the Lady War Eagles’ game. Diem would have been a likely senior starter for South but is instead battling Hodgkin’s lymphona since she was diagnosed with the cancer just before the start of the season.