Adalin Farnum is like any other five-year -old girl. She loves playing with dolls, going to school, and of course watching Hannah Montana.

But Adalin has something most five-year-old's don't -- a rare tumor in her upper leg and pelvis. Her mother Tammy, a women's soccer coach at MSU, and her father a softball coach at Olivet, knew something was wrong last April.

"She said, 'Mommy, there's a bump in my leg and it kind of hurts when i do different types of movements,'" he mother Tammy recalled.

Doctors performed tests on Adalin but the family was left with uncertainty.

"Not knowing anything was terrifying."

Once the tumor was found to be malignant, Adalin began undergoing chemotherapy for three days at a time every three weeks. Initially, the prognosis was grim.

"It was either do nothing, or do a pelvic and a half leg amputation."

A choice the Farnum family didn't want to make. But a recent call from St. Jude's Hospital in Tennessee, gave them renewed hope.

"They said they can have an opportunity to get 85-90% chance to take the tumor out with radiation only."

Her parents say Adalin has been a fighter throughout the ordeal, even keeping a normal schedule.

"I go to my mom's soccer games and my dad's softball games," Adalin said.

She even had hopes of one day becoming a cheerleader at Michigan State University.

Once the MSU athletic department and the community heard the story they rallied around the family.

"There are a lot of people in the community that want to be a part of it," said family friend Senator Gretchen Whitmer.

Sen. Whitmer is helping former Spartan athletes with a benefit for Adalin to be held this Saturday at Spartan Stadium. It begins at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $100.