A 22-Year-Old Man Had Wife Pretend To Be Mother So He Could Play High School Basketball in Tennessee
A 22-year-old Louisiana man posed as an 18-year-old to play basketball at Ridgeway High School in Memphis. According to reports, the 35-year-old woman he lived with who claimed to be his mother was actually his wife. He has been identified by various outlets as “McKinzie” or “McKenzie” Sewell.
In a letter to Ridgeway principal Jim Long, the student-athlete in question was identified as a transfer student from Louisiana but was not identified by name. After getting into disciplinary trouble at school, the student was found to be living in the Ridgeway district with a woman who was either his live-in girlfriend or wife and not his mother as originally thought, according to the letter.
The TSSAA also determined that the student had received a General Equivalency Diploma from the Shreveport Job Corps and had also falsified a transcript from Peabody Magnet High School in Louisiana.
Ridgeway, expected to compete for a state title, was booted from the tournament. This ends what had been an eventful season for the school. Just in the past few weeks Ridgeway had 10 players suspended for a fight during a game. The school also had an assistant basketball coach, Jimmy McClain, found killed in his home.

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March 4th, 2013 at 4:27 PM
That’s messed up. Memphians are something else.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:30 PM
A 22-Year-Old Man Had Wife Pretend To Be Mother So He Could Play High School Basketball in Tennessee”
wow, he was very inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey
March 4th, 2013 at 4:31 PM
clank
i meant Alien
March 4th, 2013 at 4:32 PM
can’t fault him for following his dream.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Considering he’s from Louisiana, he could actually be a 22-year-old high school student.
When I was in junior high, one of our football rivals had a 19-year-old on their team.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:38 PM
I’ve got to follow that dream wherever that dream may lead
I’ve got to follow that dream to find the love I need
March 4th, 2013 at 4:40 PM
That can’t be legal.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:42 PM
I guess it was back in the day. I think there’s now an age limit on how long you can still be in school in The Gret Stet of Looweezeeanna.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Would have been more amusing if this guy turned out to be one of those students who bang their teacher, and his “mom” found out about it.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Weird that he left Louisianna to do this. They are currently making an adult a star for beating up 8th graders in track and football.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Damn on top of that, he only played in the closing minutes. He wasn’t even a star on the team. A 22 year old scrub.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:53 PM
At a HS in the North Atl burbs, a QB was said to have been 21 (was still 20 when the season started) and his sophomore brother WR was 19. Their dad was the head coach and held them back while in elementary school.
So … they drove home from MS practice? Convenient for the parents.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:55 PM
I think there’s now an age limit on how long you can still be in school
I believe in GA, to participate in sports, you can’t be 21 when the school year starts – but you can turn 21 during the school year – something like that.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:55 PM
So many questions: Was he involved in killing the coach, who may have happened to find out the players true age and identity, especially since they say he was a gang member? Was he planted there by a rival school?
March 4th, 2013 at 4:59 PM
Same state as the McNair murder.
/serial killer
March 4th, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Sounds like a great movie. Change it to a comedy and bring on the Wayans.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:02 PM
In our conference in Michigan you couldn’t play HS sports if you were 19 when the season began but I knew a lot of people who were held back one year for sports reasons. 3-4 years seems crazy to me.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:07 PM
in Ohio if you turn 19 before August 1st of the upcoming school year, you cant play.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Detective JMonk declares: case closed!
March 4th, 2013 at 5:20 PM
I sent this tip to JMac! So proud!
March 4th, 2013 at 5:36 PM
thanks, TNCowboy
March 4th, 2013 at 6:39 PM
must be tough for all those hicks in southeastern Ohio
March 4th, 2013 at 11:38 PM
must be tough for all those hicks in southeastern Ohio
Awesome.
March 4th, 2013 at 11:46 PM
Disclaimer: my mom grew up in southeastern Ohio but is not a hick