Injuries and Triumphs: The Story of Andrew Bithell

Podcast: Juniata Men's Basketball Show · Thomas Frank

Opublikowano: 2025-05-29

School’s out, but Tom, Biz, and Coach Curley refuse to coast into summer. Instead, they welcome 6-foot-7 bruiser-turned-firefighter Andrew “Bith” Bithell (’21) for a conversation that crackles hotter than a three-alarm blaze. Bith rewinds the tape on his roller-coaster college career—three shoulder surgeries, two concussions, and a nine-game senior season shortened by COVID—then fast-forwards to life in full turnout gear with the Altoona Fire Department, where he moonlights as a record-setting strongman (yes, he once cuddled a 415-lb atlas stone). Along the way, the crew trades stories about rehab-forged grit, weight-room epiphanies, and that Winston Churchill ma...