Eli Schoonveld, 2024 Karen Page Courage Award Recipient

The Hope College Karen Page Courage Award is presented annually in honor of beloved former Hope women’s tennis coach Karen Page, who lost her brave, five-year battle to breast cancer during the summer of 2009. Men’s basketball senior Eli Schoonveld, the 2024 recipient, lives with Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a group of disorders that have orthostatic intolerance (OI) as their primary symptom. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, OI is a condition in which an excessively reduced volume of blood returns to the heart after an individual stands up from a lying down position. The…