Mom and Dad are NSU star's biggest cheerleaders

NORFOLK, Virginia  --  Sheri Williams lay in a hospital bed in Germany, mourning the loss of one child and praying she would not lose another.

“Sie benötigen bettruhe,” said the nurses, who spoke little English. “You need bed rest,” a friend interpreted.

Months earlier, she had been told she was pregnant with twins. Then she had a miscarriage. She thought she’d lost both, but tests showed one still clung to life.

Doctors in Frankfurt ordered her to bed for a month and warned it would be a miracle if the second twin survived.



Yet, on Nov. 13, 1991, Pendarvis Lafayette Akim Williams was born – happy and healthy.
“Penny,” as he is known by friends, is an only child, one who was fixated on basketball before he could speak.

“I’d put him down in his carrier in front of a game on television when he was 3 months old and he would watch it,” Sheri Williams said.

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