One of USC’s biggest fans will become a Trojan this fall.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Jake Olson, 18, will join the team as a walk-on long snapper.

“It’s a dream come true,” he said.

When Olson was 10 months old, he lost his left eye due to a rare cancer of the retina. For the next 11 years, he went through chemotherapy and radiation treatments before eventually losing his left eye at age 12. But before losing his sight completely, Olson wanted to see one final USC football game.

Enter Pete Carroll. The former Trojan coach learned of Olson’s story and got in touch with the family. ESPN College GameDay did a magnificent and emotional piece on the relationship between Olson and the impact he had on Carroll’s team back in 2009. Olson and Carroll still keep in touch and he’s been on the Seahawks sidelines multiple times. He even learned how to play long snapper from Seattle’s Clint Gresham and earned a starting spot on his Orange Lutheran High School varsity team.

The LA Times reports, Olson has been admitted to USC and is a recipient of a Swim With Mike scholarship, awarded annually from the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship fund.

Swim With Mike began in 1981 as a benefit for former USC swimmer Mike Nyeholt, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a motorcycle accident. It has since raised more than $16 million and has funded scholarships at 85 universities, said Ron Orr, a USC senior associate athletic director and former Trojans swimmer who founded the program.

USC coach Steve Sarkisian is confident that Olson will get in a game for USC.

“Someday, he’s going to snap in a game for us,” Sarkisian said. “When? I don’t know. But it will happen. “When that day comes, it will be awesome.”

And Carroll would love it.

“I can’t even fathom what an extraordinary thing that would be,” he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIqSL-s-HUA

(Thanks to Sports Illustrated for sharing.)