Bethany Bradsher
Writer
Bethany Bradsher has been a professional writer for 27 years, and during that time she has written about virtually every topic imaginable and worked in a host of media. Her primary background is in sportswriting, and as a full-time sportswriter for the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, S.C. she covered the first two seasons of the Carolina Panthers and the preparations for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. She started working as a freelancer in 1997, contributing articles to newspapers, magazines and online publications, and in 2010 Whitecaps Media published her first book, Coaching Third: The Keith LeClair Story.
After Coaching Third, Bradsher wrote two more sports books for Whitecaps Media—The Classic: How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South in 2011 and Bones McKinney: Basketball’s Unforgettable Showman in 2014. She has also ghostwritten two books: Broken Road, the story of former New England Patriots star running back Tony Collins in 2013 and Game Changer: The Remarkable Story of Caroline’s Cart in 2016. In 2015 Bradsher began a collaboration with JKR Ventures and wrote two books for that publisher: Super Bowl 50: Celebrating 50 Years of America’s Greatest Game in 2015 and Victory for MSU: A 120-Year History of Spartan Basketball in 2017. Also in 2017, she published Born In Rocky Mount: Stories From the Early Days of Hardee’s, and in 2019 she released Body, Mind, Spirit and Basketball: How Fletcher Arritt and Fork Union Military Academy Helped Turn Hundreds of Boys Into Men.
Bradsher lives in Greenville, NC with her four children and her husband Sid, the director of a community non-profit organization. She also does regular editing work and provides articles and content for several online outlets.