Tobago girl kicks way to top in US

FORMER Trinidad and Tobago Under-19 and Phoenix FC footballer Mauricia Nic-holson currently studying at the University of West Florida (UWF) set three records in her freshman season with the women’s team. Nicholson’s 12 goals, which landed her fifth for goals scored in a single season was also a team high for 2002, placed her fourth in the Gulf South Conference (GSC) and secured her a spot on the All-GSC Second and All-Tournament teams. A past student of Bishop’s High School, Tobago, Nicholson, who wears the number eight shirt, also scored two game winners one at Lynn University and the other to complete a hat-trick against Spring Hill University at home and averaged 52.9 minutes per game in her first season at the university.

The daughter of McNicol and Karen Moore Nicholson, the 20-year-old midfielder/forward is majoring in Business Administration and was also on the GSC Academic Honour Roll, showing prowess on and off the football field. Now in her sophomore year, Nicholson is currently second on the team with 28 points, and her 2002 season’s statistics have her fifth in the conference, promising her well wishers, family and team-mates at UWF only the best from this season which began on August 29 and will end on November 2. UWF is also home to former Malick Secondary Compre-hensive footballer Okang Nkosi who was a starting defender on the men  team but  suffered a season ending injury which forced him to watch from the sidelines for the remainder of 2002, despite this however he was also on the GSC Academic Honour Roll.