Jacob McNiel is a junior at UK studying aerospace engineering. Carter Skaggs | UK Photo

For UK student, ‘It’s a miracle DanceBlue was right down the road’

In the past two decades, the student-run DanceBlue organization has raised $2.1 million to support pediatric cancer patients and their families at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Its work helps patients like 22-year-old UK student Jacob McNiel, who has spent hours in the DanceBlue Clinic receiving treatment and says it was a “miracle” that the DanceBlue Clinic was right down the road when he needed it.

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