Coach: 25-Year-Old Who Posed As High Schooler To Play Basketball Was “Average Player”

High school was a fun time for many people. But would you actually want to go back and relive it? Maybe, if you could star on a school’s basketball team!

This  happens  occasionally. And it apparently happened again this school year, as police in Texas say a 25-year-old man posed as a Hurricane Harvey evacuee in order to attend and play basketball at Hillcrest High School in Dallas.

Police say Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley posed as a 17-year-old and played basketball for the Panthers this season. He was arrested Friday night and is charged with tampering with government records. Most troublingly, The Dallas Morning News he dated a 14-year-old this school year. He also has a kid.

He’d previously played basketball at North Mesquite High School and Dallas Christian College. As one might expect from a 25-year-old playing against teens, he starred for Hillcrest this season; coaches voted him offensive player of the year in his district classification.

Phillip Randall, his former coach at North Mesquite, blew the whistle on the whole thing after being alerted a former player of his was still playing high school ball. He also gave an excellent quote to NBC DFW on Gilstrap-Portley’s skill level:

“He was an average player and a good kid, I’m surprised,” Randall said.

Makes sense. After all, Hillcrest only went 11-10 this year with a 25-year-old on the roster.