Georgia soccer commit Chace Calicut was arrested after his alleged involvement in a violent driving incident earlier this month — simply days after he dedicated to play soccer for the Bulldogs.
Calicut and a fellow 17-year-old have been charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon associated to the July 6 incident, in keeping with information considered by The Put up.
Fox 26 in Houston reported the arrest.
The four-star cornerback recruit formally dedicated to Georgia on June 27 and is the No. 114 participant total within the 2026 recruiting class, in keeping with 247Sports.
The alleged incident occurred in Houston, the place Calicut hails from and performs for North Shore Excessive Faculty.
Fox 26 reported, citing courtroom paperwork, that Calicut allegedly drove in entrance of an unidentified male teen driver, who had an unnamed feminine passenger within the car, and hit his brakes to drive the male to slam on his personal brakes to keep away from crashing into Calicut’s automotive.
The male teen then tried to drive round Calicut’s automotive to get away, however the soccer participant allegedly pulled up subsequent to him and drove erratically in entrance of and subsequent to the unnamed teen driver.
The teenager stated Calicut’s passenger — recognized as 17-year-old Isaiah Brice Phillip — then held a handgun out and was pointing it towards the opposite car.
It was additionally alleged that the teenager had heard a number of gunshots after he was capable of elude Calicut’s automotive and that one other good friend had seen Phillip taking pictures out of the automotive window.
Calicut and the teenager within the different automotive know one another from college, with the latter alleging that the soccer star had been threatening him in school and over FaceTime over a number of months, in keeping with Fox 26.
It’s the second Georgia soccer commit to search out himself on the flawed finish of the regulation this month.
A line of defense commit — Seven Cloud — was charged with home battery in Kansas associated to an incident that occurred in April.
The Georgia soccer program has had a slew of driving-related arrests the previous few years, with head coach Kirby Sensible addressing the subject earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season.
“The incidents that we’ve had off the field are not something that we condone,” Sensible stated final July. “It’s very unlucky, disappointing I assume is one of the best phrase. I at all times discuss course of and outcomes. I talked about that with wins and losses that we strive to not base issues on the outcomes with wins and losses.
“In this situation, the outcomes are very disappointing.”
