Justin Sealey - Sealey in action in the BFA Senior League
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 was National Signing
Day for the Class of 2010 senior high school student athletes seeking to attend
college in the fall.
Bahamian soccer standout and National team member
Justin Sealey inked his commitment to follow in the footsteps of legendary tar
heels Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, Rick Fox and Mia Hamm when he signed his
official letter of intent to matriculate at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. The signing ceremony which took place at Sealey’s current high
school, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, was attended by his
father, BFA President Anton Sealey and younger sister Lindsey, also a student
at St. Stephen’s.
At UNC, Sealey will be joining Coach Elmer
Bolowich and a program that is consistently ranked in the top 5 of the NCAA
Division 1 Men’s Soccer. UNC entered last season ranked Number 1, despite
having lost in the NCAA Finals to the University of Maryland Terrapins, and just
recently lost out in the semi-finals of this year’s tournament to eventual
winners and number 1 ranked Akron. This year’s team saw two of its graduating
seniors taken in the MLS draft, with Captain Zack Lloyd being chosen with the 5th
pick overall. Sealey leads a strong recruiting class which will be counted on
heavily to replace the departing seniors.
Sealey who starred at Queens College for Coach
Garry Markham and in the BFA’s Youth League with the Insurance Management Bears
Football Club before leaving for school in the US, credits his success to
supportive parents, coaches and friends. He add to a growing list of young
soccer players, products of the Bahamas Football Association’s youth program,
who have been recruited to top flight soccer programs in the United States.
General Secretary Lionel Haven touting the success of the BFA’s Foot Scholars
program in congratulating Sealey stated, “Justin is a fine example of a young
Bahamian applying himself and being rewarded for his considerable effort.
Having watched him from a very young man early on to someone who has seriously
committed to improving his game and himself in the classroom, I know that
Justin will succeed and lay a foundation behind which many other young Bahamian
Foot Scholars can take advantage.”
Justin Sealey at the Signing Ceremony at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas
