PHOTOS: Student Athletes Deliver Holiday Cheer at Cancer Center

Rosaleigh Goldhammer, age 2, carefully eyed the pile of presents under the Christmas tree at Stony Brook University's Cancer Center on Wednesday before finding one to play with.

Rosaleigh, who has transient leukemia, was among the children who received gifts on Wednesday from the student athletes at the University.

"It's nice to have something like this here so she doesn't always have fear when she comes here," said her mother, Melissa Goldhammer. "She's usually getting blood platelets or transfusions or they're taking blood."

Lorien Rosario, whose four-year-old son Elijah has leukemia, agreed. "It means the world to see him having fun," she said.

Members of the University's men's and women's soccer teams, women's lacrosse, and men's and women's swimming and diving teams were joined by athletic director Jim Fiore and of course Wolfie to deliver dozens of toys.

The Cancer Center is often a very serious place, where both children and adults receive a variety of therapies.

"Because of the therapies they receive, they're often in and out of the hospitals and require frequent monitoring by their doctors," said Lauren Sharaby, a certified child life specialist at the Cancer Center. "So this type of event brings joy and cheer to our clinic ... It brightens up a day filled with medicine, procedures, and doctor visits."