The inspiring story of why TSSAA coach is giving kidney to ex-Vanderbilt star Ronnie McMahan
Vanderbilt basketball great and MBA associate dean of students Ronnie McMahan needed a kidney. Station Camp soccer coach Jeremy Cooke answered the call.
Ronnie McMahan thinks about the 3- to 4-inch scar that will be on his abdomen soon. He can’t wait to tell the story. “My son is very inquisitive,” McMahan said.
“He’s like any 5-year-old. Anytime he sees a scar on my hand or leg, he’ll say, ‘Daddy, what is that one? ’ I’ll have this scar I can one day show my son.
He’ll ask what that is and I’ll say, ‘That’s from someone else giving me a chance to be around to spend more time with you. It was something I couldn’t do on my own. ’ ” McMahan, a former Vanderbilt basketball guard and a dean of students at Montgomery Bell Academy for the past 22 years, didn’t want to ask for someone else’s kidney.
But what choice was there? McMahan, 53, has a hereditary disease that is causing end-stage kidney failure. His kidneys are just 9% functional.
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