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High School Sports News Articles - MaxPreps - 21-year-old busted playing HS sports
The Morning Sun - Mt. Pleasant student turns out to be 21; football team may have to forfeit games
Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) may have to forfeit games after discovering one of its players was 21-years-old.
The expression "a man among boys" came true for the Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) football team after it was discovered that a 21-year-old man played four games for the school this fall.
According to Morning Sun, 21-year-old James Nash fraudulently transferred into the school district under the alias Javier Jones and took the lie all the way to the gridiron.
Acting on a tip, the school district investigated and discovered that Nash had forged documents to cover up his age.
As of Friday, Mt. Pleasant had already removed Nash from its football roster.
The school is awaiting word from the MHSAA as to whether it will have to forfeit the games in which Nash played. The organization has never dealt with such a case.
"At this point it's just communication," Conway told the Morning Sun. "But the MHSAA did indicate that it is unprecedented that a young person has changed their age from older to younger to be able to play. They had not run into this."
The strange case is reminiscent of the Guerdwich Montimere saga, in which a 22-year-old posed as a high school sophomore basketball player in Texas.
The Morning Sun - Mt. Pleasant student turns out to be 21; football team may have to forfeit games
Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) may have to forfeit games after discovering one of its players was 21-years-old.
The expression "a man among boys" came true for the Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) football team after it was discovered that a 21-year-old man played four games for the school this fall.
According to Morning Sun, 21-year-old James Nash fraudulently transferred into the school district under the alias Javier Jones and took the lie all the way to the gridiron.
Acting on a tip, the school district investigated and discovered that Nash had forged documents to cover up his age.
As of Friday, Mt. Pleasant had already removed Nash from its football roster.
The school is awaiting word from the MHSAA as to whether it will have to forfeit the games in which Nash played. The organization has never dealt with such a case.
"At this point it's just communication," Conway told the Morning Sun. "But the MHSAA did indicate that it is unprecedented that a young person has changed their age from older to younger to be able to play. They had not run into this."
The strange case is reminiscent of the Guerdwich Montimere saga, in which a 22-year-old posed as a high school sophomore basketball player in Texas.
