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Hundreds gathered at Good Counsel on Tuesday to celebrate the life of former Falcons golfer and swimmer Madison Smith, who died Oct. 22 at 16 after a battle with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Wearing a tie that was Smith’s favorite color, yellow, her father, Jimmy, opened the service with words of remembrance.
“Do the things you love with the people you love,” he said, “as Madison would have wanted.”
Good Counsel students and community members also took the stage to honor Smith. Golf team captain Thomas Margison gave the first reading, and a group of friends and classmates presented yellow flowers.
Smith was diagnosed with cancer in August 2021, with her family receiving the news while on vacation in Hawaii. From there, the then-freshman underwent chemotherapy treatment while still attending school and playing sports. Her battle and promising golf career were documented in a story by The Washington Post in May 2022, shortly after she finished 12 rounds of chemo.
“She never let cancer define her,” said her mother, Molly. “Teachers told us they wanted to give Madison breaks on assignments, knowing that she was going through treatments, and she would ask them, ‘Don’t I owe you more?’ ”
In March 2022, the last treatment was completed and the cancer went into remission, just as Smith’s freshman season of golf at Good Counsel was ramping up. By December, however, doctors confirmed her cancer had returned.
Throughout the process, the Good Counsel community was there, supporting Smith and her family any way it could.
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/11/07/good-counsel-remembers-madison-smith-16-who-golfed-through-cancer/
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