Columbus, OHIO — Most people can't imagine battling cancer, let alone losing a limb because of it, but one woman battling both is a true testament of achieving what seems impossible. 

What You Need To Know

• LaQuinta Haynes lost her leg to cancer in 2016 and went through seven months of chemotherapy


• She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, which is a rare bone cancer


• Since, Haynes has become a competitive wheelchair basketball and soccer player and travels all over the world to compete


• Last September she competed in the USA Amputee Soccer Women's World Cup

"I just enjoy every day for what it is now,” said LaQuinta Haynes.

Haynes is a mom, and sports are her thing, but everything changed in 2016 when she was in a hit-and-run car accident. 

Weeks after the injury from the accident, she said something felt off. 

"My knees kept swelling, and then my left side started to swell up, and it wouldn't go down," she said.

After a trip to the hospital, doctors determined Haynes had osteosarcoma—a rare bone cancer, and while doctors saved her life, they couldn't save her leg. 

“He (the doctor) said the best thing for me was to just do away with the entire leg so has no chance of it reappearing again."

Haynes went through seven months of chemotherapy. 

Weeks after the injury from the accident, she said something felt off. 

“My knees kept swelling, and then my left side started to swell up, and it wouldn’t go down.”

After a trip to the hospital, doctors determined Haynes had osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, and while doctors saved her life, they couldn’t save her leg. 

“He (the doctor) said the best thing for me was to just do away with the entire leg, so has no chance of it reappearing again.”

Haynes went through seven months of chemotherapy. 

While losing her leg to cancer wasn’t easy, and still isn’t, Haynes said she found purpose because of it. She started competing.

She now travels around the world as a competitive wheelchair basketball and soccer player, taking home awards, while training as often as possible. 

Last September she competed in the USA Amputee Soccer Women’s World Cup, inspiring people like her daughter Sophia Walker. 

“I also have a disability, which is visual impairment,” said Walker. “She’s always telling me not to give up. If I ever lose my vision, I mean, my life’s not over. It’ll just always like keep me motivated.”  

Haynes often thinks of others battling cancer, while competing. 

“I just hope that my story builds on someone else’s life,” she said. “I want the next cancer patient to be like, ‘Man, I want to, I’m going to go play basketball and I’m going to go play because life isn’t over. It’s just beginning.’ And you get to begin all over again with a brand-new life of hope and success. I don’t want to look at my life as nothing other than success.”