September 12 2009
Chad joins the Bearcats

Following closely on the heels of Lenyn Leonce, another member of the Morne Stars Athletics Club is taking up studies in the United States. Just shy of his 20th birthday, former National Champion and National Junior Champion, Chad Phillip is starting school at McKendree University in Illinois on a partial athletic scholarship, studying towards a degree in Economics and Finance.

A former YO! Magazine cover boy, Chad will be joining the Bearcats' sprint programme, but at 6'1" and 180 lbs, he is a well-rounded athlete - a talented 100m runner, multiple Long Jump and Javelin Throw medallist, and a former goalkeeper for the junior national football team. From an athletic family, he is the second of his siblings to earn an athletic scholarship, following his sister, volleyballer Lottie Phillip.

From the community of Jacmel and a product of Castries Comprehensive Secondary School and Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, Chad is looking forward to this new stage in his life. "I hope my grades and times go in opposite directions, because I want to keep running faster and getting higher marks in class as the year continues," he remarked. "I am ready for just about anything right now."

Along with Leonce and Jeremiah James (both Wyoming) Morne Stars currently studying and competing in the United States include Travis Joseph (Grambling), Kenson Nicholas (Bethune Cookman), Leander Ernest (Missouri State), Burke Leonce (Troy) and Mandela Clifford MidAmerica Nazarene). -- http://terryfinisterre.blogspot.com/