Ty Williams has made impressive strides since a catastrophic spinal cord injury suffered in Georgetown football’s season-opener last September left the junior linebacker paralyzed.
After nine hours of surgery at UPMC Altoona Hospital and four months of intensive rehabilitation at The Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Williams has regained enough upper-body strength to transition from a motorized wheelchair to a self-propelled one. And in January he returned to the Hilltop for the start of the spring semester, taking two classes while continuing his work in rehab, with a goal of walking again.
On Tuesday, seven months to the day he suffered the spinal injury during a tackle in the first quarter of the Sept.