Jahvair Mullings to Norfolk State on Tennis Scholarship
Jahvair Mullings
By Glen Laman
Seventeen year old Jahvair Mullings graduated Kingston College last year with 9 CXC exam passes. He also did quite well in the SAT scoring 1900. He now heads to Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia on a full Tennis Scholarship. The coach visited Jamaica to check out Jahvair personally.
While at KC, Jahvair participated in The Scholarship Fund a non-profit organization founded by Christine Gore and her husband to assist young Tennis Jamaica players. The scholarship covered the following:
School Fees at KC
SAT Preparation Classes
Tennis Training
Room and Board for Overseas Competition
Tennis Jamaica provided the following support to Jahvair:
Airline Ticket for Overseas Competition
Subsidized Coaching
An income stream - as an approved hitting partner for people who use the Tennis Center
Christine Gore (center) with her Scholarship Fund students (l-r) Monique Hanson, Jahvair Mullings, Shantal Blackwood and Orick Angus
Tennis Jamaica has provided the only public tennis facility in Jamaica and Jahvair has trained there exclusively. The center is in the heart of Cross Roads ( the Old St. Andrew Club Building ) close to a lot of schools and therefore children. It is a safe environment in which the children can play and there is also a small Learning Center where they study.
According to Christine Gore, Honorary Secretary of Tennis Jamaica, "Tennis Jamaica is inundated with requests from Universities for Student Tennis Players. If I had 20 Jahvairs I could place them without getting up from my desk!"
The KCOBA has connected Jahvair with a KC Old Boy in the Virginia area he can contact while in school.
