Georgetown football player recovering from serious neck injury

WASHINGTON — Georgetown University junior linebacker Ty Williams, from Gaithersburg, Maryland, is in a Pennsylvania hospital recovering from a serious neck injury suffered in Saturday’s game against St. Francis.

John Kelley, Williams’ former coach at Quince Orchard High School, told MoCoFootball.com on Sunday that Williams is stable and has feeling in his legs.

In a statement on the website of its athletic department, Georgetown confirmed that Williams underwent surgery at the Altoona UPMC Hospital on Saturday night.

“Ty is one of our leaders on and off the field and is a very important part of the Hoya Football Family.” Georgetown head coach Rob Sgarlata said in the statement. “He is a tremendous young man. We are hopeful that he will progress and we are keeping and him and his family in our thoughts and constant prayers.”

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson is Senior Sports Director and morning sports anchor. He first arrived at WTOP in 1989, left in 1992 and returned in 1995. He is a three-time winner of the A.I.R. award as best radio sportscaster in D.C. In 2008 he won the Edward R. Murrow award for best writing for sports commentaries.

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