Michigan State mourns loss of 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth
Last Updated: April 11, 2014
Lacey Holsworth, the 8-year-old unofficial cheerleader for Michigan State University Basketball player Adreian Payne died on April 8, 2014. The Holsworth family used social media to announce Lacey's death from a rare form of nerve cancer this Tuesday.
Lacey Holsworth befriended with the star when Payne met Holsworth during a team-sponsored hospital visit in 2011 and the two began to text and talk frequently afterward.
Holsworth, who battled with a nerve cancer known as Neuroblastoma, accompanied Payne at center court on Senior Night and helped him cut down the nets after 2013-14 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team won the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament. On Wednesday — less than 24 hours after her death— Payne took to Twitter to pay a touching tribute to the girl who was one of his smallest fans, but undoubtedly his biggest supporter.
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