Basketball provides a weekly break for Hampton University men's assistant coach Eric Williams, whose battle against cancer is at the same time teaching and inspiring the Pirates.If you didn't know, you might not notice the suit getting a little looser each game. Or the yellow "Live Strong" bracelet peeking out from under the sleeve. It might be easy to write off the fatigue in the face to too much time on the road recruiting and too many long nights reviewing game film.
But Eric Williams is working much harder than a typical first-year college assistant basketball coach. And he only coaches on game days.
His real task is during the week, when he undergoes radiation and chemotherapy treatments for cancer. The 44-year-old transitioned from the high school to college ranks last fall in the midst of a medical crisis.
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Williams is a native Washingtonian, a 1986 graduate of Saint Augustine's College, coached previously at Norfolk's Norview High School, Washington, D.C. Archbishop Carroll High School and at Central High School in Prince George's County, MD. He also coached Boo Williams Nike Elite AAU team from 2002-06.
A shipload of folks know Williams at all levels in life, so let us lift this brother up in collective prayer. Amen.
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