- Jersey Football Combination award winner moving to the US on football scholarship.
- 18-year-old Le Quesne joins two other Islanders already playing at collegiate level.
JERSEY Junior Footballer of the Year Jonny Le Quesne has gained a football scholarship in the United States.
The St Paul’s utility player, who was in both the Island’s men’s and under-18 Muratti squads this season, the latter as captain, has signed for Tennessee Wesleyan College where he will travel to later this month.
The talented defender/midfielder has had a fine season, having won all five trophies St Paul’s entered.
Le Quesne’s season finished on Thursday playing in the Island’s 1-0 NatWest Island Games victory against Ynys Mon at St Clement to place seventh of the 16 teams.
Jonny Le Quesne: “It will be bigger and better than here in Jersey; I’m going to enjoy it and hopefully it will lead to bigger things.”
Just 24 hours later the former La Moye Primary and Les Quennevais Secondary School student collected more silverware as he was named top student for sport at Highlands College while working on a BTEC Sports Science course.
Le Quesne said: ‘Getting the scholarship is great news; I’m very happy about it and I’m really looking forward to the experience of playing football somewhere else.
‘It will be bigger and better than here in Jersey; I’m going to enjoy it and hopefully it will lead to bigger things again.
‘It’s so different; the facilities are phenomenal and now the Island Games is over I can’t wait to go.
‘I’ll miss Jersey and my friends but it’s something I really want to do.’
Le Quesne said he was grateful for the support he has received over many years from the coaches at St Paul’s, where he has played at every level from under-14s up, and Brian Oliver and Paul Renton with the Capita Centre of Excellence.
The 18-year-old student will study for a degree in sports science, a four-year course, together with playing football regularly at inter-collegiate level.
Le Quesne is following in the footsteps of former St Paul’s goalkeeper Jordan Le Guyader who has just finished his second year, also on a scholarship, at Franklin Pierce in New Hampshire where they finished fourth in the play-offs this year.
JTC Jersey Wanderers’ Fraser Barlow is also in the States where he is moving from Chicago to Texas for the forthcoming season.
