Allie Strong: MSU softball player winning battle with leukemia. Lyndal Scranton. ... Still, Alvstad saw herself again being a normal college student-athlete — laughing and playing and being healthy.

Allie Alvstad sat in the third-base dugout of Killian Stadium, looked toward the empty diamond and smiled. One year ago, Alvstad learned that she had acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the bone ...