KALAMAZOO, Mich.- Western Michigan University women's basketball player Jessica Jessing was ready to enter her senior season as a leader and team captain.

It was also going to be the season that she would face off against her sister Kendall Jessing, an incoming freshman at Mid-American Conference rivals Ohio University.

What happened to their family before the start of the year changed Jessica's life forever. This is the story of a tough young woman in her final year of NCAA Division I basketball.

Video produced by Bronco Productions/Will Posthumus. Photos were provided by the Jessing family.