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‘He’s more than eligible’: Dad upset after son ruled unable to play QB for DC high school
Much of D.C.’s Eastern High School football program supporters and alumni are furious with the DCPS Athletic Department’s investigation of Shaun Powell Jr.
He’s the junior that the team wants to be its quarterback, but an investigation of his eligibility has meant he can’t play, or even practice, with what he hoped would be his team, the Eastern Ramblers.
He’s from downstate Virginia, a little town called Emporia, where he was quarterback for Brunswick Academy — a private school. His dad, Shaun Powell Sr., decided his son would get better exposure to college coaches if they moved to Washington, D.C.
Powell Sr., a former Marine, got a security job in the city, rented an apartment and enrolled his son in Eastern High. The coach there, Roman Morris, was happy to have him. Morris has revived a moribund football program at Eastern that had declined to fewer than 20 players. He now has more than 50 players and was counting on Powell Jr. being his quarterback.
Then an anonymous school filed a protest with the DCPS Athletics Department and an investigation was underway.
Read more here: https://wjla.com/news/local/eastern-high-school-football-friday-night-dcps-eligible-dad-upset-son-ruled-unable-play-qb-quarterback-shaun-powell
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Transcript appears to show Shaun Powell Jr. should be eligible to play QB for Eastern HS
Shaun Powell Sr. said he got a job and apartment in D.C. and moved with his son from southern Virginia so Shaun Jr., a promising 11th-grade quarterback, could get more exposure to college recruiters.
But since they landed at Eastern High School, where Shaun Jr. was eligible for both spring and summer practice, it seems coaches from at least one other high school have been complaining to the D.C. Interscholastic Athletics Association (DCIAA) about the student’s eligibility to play.
Powell Sr. said the DCIAA has gone to his landlord, who told them ‘yes,’ the Powells have a lease. They’ve raised questions about recruitment, which he denied.
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