Next on SECOND BASE, Bancroft Gordon

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Bancroft Gordon
NEW YORK, NY. On Tuesday, July 21, Bancroft Gordon will join a very selected list of sports personalities to appear as guest on Second Base, the total sports program which debuted in NYC, on March 17, this year.

 Mr. Gordon represented Excelsior High School in five sports: Football (Captain), Field Hockey (Captain); Basketball (Vice Captain), Track (1500 meters), and Cricket (pace bowler/batsman).

 He was an invitee to the Jamaica National Teams for Football, Basketball and Field Hockey but narrowed his focus to football after high school.  He was the inaugural KSAFA Major League Player of the Year in 1978, during which he scored 13 goals as a midfielder, and represented the country from 1976-79.  He captained the Major League Club, Shortwood United, which he represented from 1976-1979. 

 He received a football scholarship to Howard University and represented them from 1979-1983.  He was a NCAA All-American for his final season in 1982 and received an NCAA post-graduate scholarship which he used to pursue his law degree at Harvard Law School when the professional soccer league, the NASL, folded after he graduated from Howard. 

 Mr. Gordon played professional soccer for 2 years after graduating from Law School and while practicing law in Washington D.C., representing the Maryland Bays and the Washington Diplomats of the newly formed ASL.

 Throughout his time in the US, Mr. Gordon represented a local amateur team, Jamaica Nats, which comprised former national players who had received scholarships to American universities, primarily Howard.  Five members of that group helped Howard to become the first Black college to win a NCAA Division I championship in any sport and were recently inducted in the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame (Keith Tulloch, Michael Davy, Richard Davy, Paul Pringle and Mario McLennan).  Mr. Gordon currently manages and coaches the team which, over the years has fed players to the various pro leagues in the U.S. – Adonis Maxwell, Garfield Shaw, Gregory Simmonds, Ronald Simmonds, Ray Goodlett, Joel Senior, Kevin Newland, Jahmanie Anderson, Leon Fairweather, etc.  He remains loosely involved with the national program by providing assistance to the National team and various club teams on their visits to the U.S.

Mr. Gordon recently retired from Marriott International where he served as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since 2007.

 Second Base, the all sports, online radio program is produced by Aubrey Campbell and hosted by Dale Brown, Tuesdays, 7-9 pm, on the Wee Radio Network at; www.weeradioonline.com

 

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