US EditionHow a college baseball player in Washington saved a life, after his coach’s life was saved
- Carson Burke, a Pacific Lutheran University baseball player, donated peripheral blood stem cells in March 2025 to save a 65-year-old man’s life.
- Inspired by coach Nolan Soete’s battle with aplastic anemia and successful bone marrow transplant from his sister, Burke joined the donor registry in 2022.
- Burke missed one practice to fly to Houston for a five-hour apheresis donation that extracted stem cells from blood and returned it through his arms before he returned to class the same day.
- Burke hit nine home runs with a.267/.344/.519 batting line and led his team to a 10-7 comeback win on the day before his donation, describing the registry as a chance to "help and save a life."
- Pacific Lutheran’s donor registry drive launched in 2022, registering over 700 students, has supported multiple successful transplants and highlights the impact of athlete donors like Burke.
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Helena Independent Record
How a college baseball player in Washington saved a life, after his coach’s life was saved
TACOMA, Wash. — Around the same time he registered to become a stem cell donor, Carson Burke received a letter from Carson Burke. It was written in 2011, when Burke — who hails from south Seattle — was a 7-year-old…
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