Leah Scholes: 'Before I started chemo, I said to my Oncologist: 'can we push this back so I can play?'

Pictured is Leah Scholes, with her mother Cathy and dad John, celebrating their championship final win in October 2019.

Dark humour has been her coping mechanism, while Leah Scholes has always refused to bend to even the most disheartening diagnosis.

She was just 15 when her doctor delivered the news that she had Stage 2 Ovarian Cancer, which was accompanied by the response: “am I going to die?”