By Rikki George, Web Editor
OCU men’s rowing coach, Cam Brown, fell ill with Guillain-Barré syndrome this spring while taking athletes to a regatta at Princeton University.
Guillain-Barré syndrome is an extremely rare disease where the immune system of one’s body attacks the nervous system. Guillain-Barré syndrome affect one in 100,000 people and has left Brown temporarily paralyzed.
Brown still coaches the men’s team at 5:30 a.m. on Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s. His fiance
e, Jessica Alshley, wakes up at 4 a.m. every morning to dress, feed and get Brown down to the Devon Boathouse.
Brown, 29, and Ashley, 24, planned their wedding for this December and see no reason to postpone the event.
Brown and the rest of the OCU Stars rowing team will take to the water this weekend for the 2011 Oklahoma Regatta Festival, races take place Friday through Sunday.
Read more about Cam Brown and his battle with Guillain-Barré here.
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