Move Down Under 'saved my life
Steve Butler from The West Australian looks at how a four month SBL Contract in Bunbury for James Fitch changed his life. The article also includes a 14 minute video interview.
Had it not been for a chance four-month basketball contract in country WA, James Fitch fears his fate may have mirrored that of several former schoolmates whose lives ended violently on his home streets of Mississippi.
But 23 years after coming to Australia in 1990 to take up his State Basketball League contract in Bunbury, Fitch appreciates his stark life contrasts as he prepares to start a new job this week as a safety officer on a Newman construction site for the Forge Group.
The 47-year-old is this year expected to figure prominently in major achievement awards being considered by the SBL to mark the competition's 25th anniversary season.
But life could have been so much different had he returned home to the US in 1991 as planned to start building a college coaching career.
Click here to read the full article by Steve Butler from The West Australian.
Article & Photo from The West Australian (Photo by Jon Gellweiler)
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