LC
Years ago

High School basketball star actually 22!

As reported on the Herald-Sun website:

WEST Texas student who led his high school basketball team to the state playoffs last season was actually a 22-year-old man.

Ector County school district officials said the man posed as 16-year-old Jerry Joseph and enrolled at Permian High School in Odessa for the 2009-2010 academic year. He also presented himself as homeless to the school's basketball coach, Danny Wright, who took the boy in last summer, the coach said.

The revelation means Permian likely will have to forfeit the 2009 basketball season in which the 198cm player known as Jerry Joseph led the team to District 2-5A state playoffs and earned newcomer of the year accolades.

Link: http://linky.com.au/195gs

Wow!

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Ricey  
Years ago

so, how did he get into the school with that fake name and what not??? says a lot about the education system in USA!

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Who Me  
Years ago

How could you not notice the difference between a 16 year old and a 22 year old!

Unless of course it was an older story and it was about Le Bron or Oden :)

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sircreate  
Years ago


This actually came out like a month ago in the news, but it was denied at the time or something because the FBI apparently did a DNA/finger print test and they said he wasnt Guerdwich Montimere.

I guess he must've faked his way through it somehow if now he's been arrested.

And yeah in a way it does say alot about the US, you could be in the country illegally, but you can still enroll your kids in school, go to the hospital and even get a drivers license in some states. There was even a big ruscus recently when Arizona passed laws allowing police to ask people for proof of being legally a resident of the US(the whole Pheonix Suns protesting thing in the play offs if you recall).

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wtf  
Years ago

i remember playing high school knock out and we were disqualified for having a primary school kid!

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