Quince Orchard's ever-competitive Peg Keiller beat colon cancer and is retraining her focus on her sport and team.
“I’m going to be playing with this a lot,” Keiller said on the sideline in Gaithersburg, “because I just got my ponytail back.”
In October 2006, Keiller was scheduled to undergo a Caesarean section for her youngest son, Kieran, during the Maryland playoffs. To avoid missing a game, Keiller fibbed that she required the procedure earlier to visit her mother. Four days after the C-section, Keiller was coaching Quince Orchard’s first postseason game.
The following week, Keiller received her cancer diagnosis after a CT scan. The news came minutes after she learned her father-in-law, Peter, who had endured blood cancer for 14 years, died after suffering a stroke.In September 2021, Keiller told her players to meet in a classroom for a film session. When they arrived, players believed they were in trouble because the school’s principal, athletic director and counselors were present.
For the first time since she was pregnant, Keiller sat on a foldable chair during games and instructed assistants to yell instructions. Her empathy evolved, too. Goalkeeper Carly Schaechter felt nervous before a game last October when Keiller pulled her aside.
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