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A year after 'The Run,' Jack Hoffman not interested in spotlight

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

A year after 'The Run,' Jack Hoffman not interested in spotlight

• Chris Dunker | Lincoln Journal Star
• Apr 11, 2014
• Apr 11, 2014 Updated Oct 20, 2020
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Jack Hoffman, 8, does a flip on the trampoline in his backyard while his two sisters, Reese, 3, and Ava, 6, look on. The star of last year's Red-White Spring Game, Jack is a normal second-grader back home in Atkinson.

• LAUREN JUSTICE/Lincoln Journal Star

Jack Hoffman, 8, works on an assignment in Becky Corkle's second-grade class at West Holt Elementary School. For show and tell, he took his Nintendo DS and 10-month-old Labrador puppy.

• LAUREN JUSTICE/Lincoln Journal Star

The touchdown Jack Hoffman (22) scored at last year's Red-White Spring Game at Memorial Stadium helped spark nationwide interest in Team Jack and research into a cure for pediatric brain cancer.

• MATT RYERSON/Journal Star file photo

Jack Hoffman, 8, makes a face during a standoff with his sister, Ava, 6, in a game of backyard baseball this week.

• LAUREN JUSTICE/Lincoln Journal Star

Awards line the mantel in the Hoffman family's living room in Atkinson. Jack Hoffman's run in the 2013 Red-White Spring Game was honored as the top moment at last year's ESPYs.

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Chris Dunker | Lincoln Journal Star

ATKINSON -- Nothing in the way Jack Hoffman bounces on the trampoline reveals the brain tumor that nearly claimed his life.

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Jack Hoffman, 8, does a flip on the trampoline in his backyard while his two sisters, Reese, 3, and Ava, 6, look on. The star of last year's Red-White Spring Game, Jack is a normal second-grader back home in Atkinson.

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