D-II hoops player survives shark attack
Hopefully your Memorial Day weekend was filled with good food, appropriate appreciation for our country's servicemen and women, loud friends, louder music and relatively safe experiences.
That is to say: Hopefully it went better than Chad Renfro's. The incoming senior guard at D-II Barry University in Miami took a trip home, upstate, to see his parents in Jacksonville. He also found some time in the ocean, as he's apparently one to surf.
Then came the shark attack that luckily only mangled a few tendons in his left foot.
"I was paddling back out and I felt a shark clamp on my foot," he said to WSVN-TV.
And now you're wincing. Here, let's paint a clearer picture. Physicians believe either a bull or lemon shark was the hungry one that went after Renfro's foot like it was a fish. Amazing he not only got free from the beast's teeth but also got to shore and to the hospital with minimal overall damage.
And now he's got scars to earn him dates for years to come.
Here's the story from WSVN-TV.
A full recovery is expected, and Renfro is proving to be quite the bro, saying: hell, yeah, he'll get back in the water to surf again. But that will wait until after his final year at Barry is complete. The team went 12-17 last year and Renfro averaged 11 points per game.
(H/T, Larry Brown Sports)
That is to say: Hopefully it went better than Chad Renfro's. The incoming senior guard at D-II Barry University in Miami took a trip home, upstate, to see his parents in Jacksonville. He also found some time in the ocean, as he's apparently one to surf.
Then came the shark attack that luckily only mangled a few tendons in his left foot.
"I was paddling back out and I felt a shark clamp on my foot," he said to WSVN-TV.
And now you're wincing. Here, let's paint a clearer picture. Physicians believe either a bull or lemon shark was the hungry one that went after Renfro's foot like it was a fish. Amazing he not only got free from the beast's teeth but also got to shore and to the hospital with minimal overall damage.
And now he's got scars to earn him dates for years to come.
Here's the story from WSVN-TV.
A full recovery is expected, and Renfro is proving to be quite the bro, saying: hell, yeah, he'll get back in the water to surf again. But that will wait until after his final year at Barry is complete. The team went 12-17 last year and Renfro averaged 11 points per game.
(H/T, Larry Brown Sports)
