Glenwood Cougars football league suspended for 13-year-old player who tested into 10th grade

GLENWOOD, Sick. (WLS) — Controversy is brewing in a south suburban pee-wee soccer league over one kid’s participation.

He is the identical age as his teammates, however his excessive educational skills have value his crew a shot on the playoffs – and the boy’s coaches say that is not proper.

The Glenwood Cougars soccer program fields quite a few groups with gamers as much as 14 years previous. Tremayne Gandy Jr. is 13 years previous, however he is academically superior and simply enrolled in highschool as a sophomore. That is nice for his educational progress, however an issue for his soccer crew.

The league has suspended the crew for having a highschool participant on the roster.

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“This is a younger man that’s 13 years previous doing a tenth grade training and he’s being penalized,” crew president Gary Richardson stated. “Not simply him, however the entire program is being penalized.”

The league guidelines clearly state no participant shall be registered if she or he is coming into highschool. The league issued an announcement saying “…it’s regrettable to implement a disciplinary motion that impacts the broader group, nonetheless, every of the 13 franchises within the league have agreed to honor these bylaws in alternate for truthful play.” The suspension impacts all 200 gamers and cheerleaders in this system.

“Soccer is gonna come and go,” cheerleader director Ouida Howard stated. “Your training is gonna all the time be there. And for them to make this a damaging shouldn’t be good.”

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Coaches stated Tremayne has been in this system since he was 6 years previous. However the 13-year-old is 140 kilos, and his coaches say he is not bodily or emotionally able to play with different highschool sophomores.

He learn a letter of apology to his teammates, which has gotten 1000’s of views on YouTube, however different dad and mom say he has nothing to apologize for.

“It bothers me as a guardian,” Tyrone Blatcher stated. “We needs to be celebrating one thing like this, this child.”

The Cougars plan to play 4 extra video games left this season they usually should forfeit all of them and won’t be allowed to go to the playoffs, until the board reverses its choice.