FWST: Fort Worth boy with honorary scholarship on TCU swim team dies
BY ROBERT CADWALLADER AND CARLOS MENDEZ
The 8-year-old Fort Worth boy thrilled at meeting the TCU basketball team and football team — including his hero, former star quarterback Trevone Boykin — and taking a trip to Disney, all arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation North Texas.
In February he signed a letter of intent — the tongue-in-cheek kind — to join the Horned Frogs swim team, and freestyled a strong 25-yard dash in the pool.
Throughout, he battled Grade IV glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, which was diagnosed in July. He braved six weeks of radiation treatment and what was set up to be a two-year regimen of chemotherapy.
Nathan died Friday, after a recent recurrence of the tumor.