Born from a fight. Built on a friendship.
519Strong is where two cancer stories meet — one that ended too soon, and one that turned survival into a promise to the next family.
The 519 — Jeremy Coast
The spirit we carry forward
Jeremy Coast fought AML leukemia for three years — and spent those years lifting up everyone around him. To the people who knew him, the illness never became the story. His relentless, joyful spirit did.
519 was his birthday, May 19th, and the number he raced under in motocross. He graduated Franklin Area High School with honors, and planned to become a pediatric nurse — to help other kids the way he'd been helped.
He passed in 2015, at eighteen. 519Strong exists to keep his spirit alive — and to put it to work for families still in the fight.
The founder — Devin Gold
Carried once. Carrying others now.
At fourteen, Devin Gold was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He kept showing up to the Franklin basketball team straight through chemo — one fan called him “the walking miracle” — and made the team knowing he might not be cleared to play.
His community carried his family: his church sent gas money and “sunshine baskets,” and a Make-A-Wish trip gave him a weekend of respite from months of treatment. He was cancer-free by 2007.
He never forgot what any of it felt like. 519Strong is how he pays it back — being the lifeline for the next family walking a road he knows by heart.
The words that got a family through
“God, church and friends. These are the things that get us through.”
— Bonny Gold, 2007
How it began
20 years of showing up.
In his own words
Jeremy's story.
A few minutes with the young man whose spirit 519Strong carries forward.