Boys' basketball: Player at Texas high school was 22-year-old impostor
Leave it up to Texas to produce the latest "I don't believe it!" story.
It turns out that a 16-year-old sophomore basketball player named Jerry Joseph from Permian High School is really Guerdwich Montimere, a 22-year-old naturalized citizen from Haiti who moved to Odessa, Texas, in 2009 and graduated from high school in Florida in 2007 after leading his high school team to a state semifinal game.
Here's the amazing story from the Odessa American. And just maybe, when a talented athlete checks in from another state, don't you think a more thorough examination is required?
-- Eric Sondheimer
It happened in the Little League World a few years ago, with the MVP ace pitcher from the Harlem Team being actually 17 not 13. His uncle who was one of the coaches provided a false birth certificate from another country. The kid is in the minors now. Go figure. This guy can still go to Europe and play.
Posted by: Get with it. | May 16, 2010 at 07:52 AM
Well, its apparent to me that this kid really loved playing basketball. I think a sponsor should pick him up and give the kid a chance. He might be the next Michael Jordon or super-greater. Don't accuse him of an imposter. I think he might well, he just didn't know how to go about it.
Think about it every body has thought these thoughts: "I wish I could go back and change with happened." Jerry tried to with the innocence of a child's imagination. Let the low merit criminal charges go please.
Posted by: Angie Solvanski | May 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM
man that is some pompous writing
Posted by: rick | May 12, 2010 at 05:09 PM