Former LSU soccer player Robyn DesOrmeaux died Thursday morning after battling cancer for several years.DesOrmeaux, 27, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma on Nov. 11, 2004.”The LSU Tiger family has lost a very special person and player today,” said George Fotopoulos, DesOrmeaux’s former coach at LSU. “Robyn was in my first recruiting class. I’m very saddened. I just feel that she was taken far too early from us. I’m very saddened today, not only as a coach but as a friend.”DesOrmeaux was a goalkeeper for the Tigers from 2000 to 2004, redshirting her first season in Baton Rouge. DesOrmeaux had 28 career wins at LSU, the most in school history, and she was named team defensive most valuable player in 2003.DesOrmeaux also had 183 career saves and 13.5 career shutouts, both No. 3 in school history.”She was the queen of working hard and having fun,” said former teammate and best friend Sara Pollock.DesOrmeaux was given a 10 percent chance to survive once diagnosed. But she gave herself a 109 percent chance of surviving — a number she came up with by combining 10 percent with her jersey number, 99.”I have it tattooed on my body,” Pollock said.Pollock became good friends with DesOrmeaux through soccer. DesOrmeaux coached Pollock as an assistant coach at Lee High School in Baton Rouge, then the two played one season together at LSU in 2004, when DesOrmeaux was a senior and Pollock was a freshman.”She is someone I’ve looked up to my whole entire life,” Pollock said. “I learned a lot about life from her.”Pollock wasn’t the only former teammate to keep in touch with DesOrmeaux during her battle with cancer.”There’s a core group of us that have been with her and stuck with her throughout the whole entire time,” Pollock said. “We’ve all really been there the whole entire time, even when we’ve graduated.”DesOrmeaux’s funeral and wake will be Saturday in her hometown of Carencro, according to Fotopoulos.Fotopoulos said at DesOrmeaux request he will be one of the pall bearers for her casket.”It’s probably one of the greatest honors that I will ever have bestowed upon me, that she would want me to share that time with her,” Fotopolous said.Pollock, who now lives in Washington, D.C., said she last saw DesOrmeaux before recently leaving Baton Rouge, and it is “one of the best memories that I have.””The one good thing is to know that she’s not in pain,” Pollock said. “She’s kind of able to now watch over all of us know that she’s taught and we’ve all learned from. I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore. I miss her.”—-Contact Robert Stewart [email protected]