Chad Kuhl and his wife Amanda are engaged in what may be the most important battle of their lives: the fight against cancer. After Amanda’s breast cancer diagnosis, Chad and Amanda partnered with the Washington Nationals Philanthropies to raise money for breast cancer treatment and research.
Chad and Amanda Kuhl have known each other since childhood.
In May 2018, Amanda detailed the couple’s love story in an Instagram post to our baseball life. Amanda said the couple met in the sixth grade and dated on and off throughout middle and high school. In senior year, Chad asked Amanda to be his girlfriend for the last time, the publication says.
The couple attended the University of Delaware. Chad played well enough to earn a spot on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ roster. “The first few seasons were difficult for us, but we quickly learned to survive at a distance,” writes Amanda.
Amanda writes that she supported Chad as his baseball career progressed. In 2016, Amanda won the Miss Delaware crown. “Chad watched all the competition via FaceTime from the clubhouse,” adds Amanda. Soon after, Amanda watched as Chad made his major league debut.
2016 was even better for the couple, as Chad proposed to his longtime partner. “She planned everything perfectly,” Amanda writes. “She scheduled me for a manicure, we had a photographer and videographer, and then a beautiful dinner. After the excitement of 2016, we were ready for all that 2017 had to offer.”
In 2018, Chad and Amanda bought a house and started planning their wedding. Amanda also traveled to road games with Chad, bonding with other couples under the Pirate Organization. She concludes:
“Having a tight-knit group of teammates and their wives by our side every season has made this crazy life a little easier. We are so grateful for every opportunity that has been given to us over the years and for every person we have met through baseball.”
Chad and Amanda married in December 2019 and welcomed their son, Hudson, in March 2021.
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Chad and Amanda tied the knot on December 28, 2019. “My favorite place in the world is next to you,” Amanda wrote on Instagram on the couple’s third anniversary. “Happy anniversary babe. I love you a lot.”
The couple welcomed their son, Hudson Everett Kuhl, on March 19, 2021. “Little shoes are made for little feet. Both my arms are made for where you sleep. The sky was made for the moon and the stars. You were made to steal my heart,” Chad announced Hudson’s arrival.
Four months after her birth, Hudson contracted COVID-19. In August 2021, amanda wrote that Chad and Hudson had tested positive for the coronavirus while she had tested negative. Amanda said that the disease had complicated her job as a mother:
“I have to wear a mask while breastfeeding my 4-month-old. I can’t pick him up immediately when he’s crying. I can’t kiss him. I can’t snuggle with him. I have to clumsily hand him over to his dad by laying him in a bassinet in the hallway and walking away. The silver lining to all of this is that he spends a lot of time with his father.”
Amanda underwent a double mastectomy after an unexpected diagnosis of breast cancer
Amanda wrote on social media that she received her breast cancer diagnosis during a routine checkup. As part of the treatment, she underwent a double mastectomy. Amanda wrote:
“The part of my body that helped me feed and comfort Hud for so many months will be gone, and our future family plans will be changed forever. But nonetheless, I’m ready to officially kick cancer’s butt and heal fast so I can hang out with my future two-year-old.”
Amanda wrote on January 21, 2023 that she considered the cancer diagnosis a “little detour in life.” Amand thanked her doctors, medical staff, friends and family for supporting her. She wrote:
“I’m so thankful that I get to go to bed tonight snuggled up with Hud. I am so grateful to have the best support system of a husband to get me through this. If I’m being super honest, I’m pretty numb right now. But other than that, fuck cancer, we’re gonna beat this shit.”
Amanda started chemotherapy in the Department of Oncology at Sibley Memorial Hospital in late April 2023. She also launched a campaign called Cancer Is Not kuhl to raise money for Breast Care for Washington DC, The Previvor and the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
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