(Radio Iowa) — Former Iowa standout Jeff Horner won a conference championship and defeated cancer this past season as the coach at Truman State. Horner underwent several months of chemotherapy as the Bulldogs improved from 14-15 his first season at the helm to 23-8 this past season.

After struggling out of the gate to a 6-5 record Truman State turned it on to win the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship.

Horner announced in late August he was battling testicular cancer and he was proud of the way his players handled it.

With his treatment behind him Horner says he gets regular scans to make sure he is cancer free.