Career
Parnel Legros (Parnell)) a former Olympic level judoka for the nation of Haiti. Parnel competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona Olympics. He would compete in the Half Heavyweight division (95kg) finishing 21st.
From 1993 to 2002, 1500 students would pass through his Judo program at Starett City.
Legros for a period ran the largest Judo program in the northeast. 100% of Parnel"s Judo students went on to college.
Parnel has been a clinician for the USJF. Legros was a speaker at the funeral of Rena Kanakogi. Parnel works as a gym teacher at Instruction Section 364.
Parnel was noted as a teacher who made an attempt to save the life of a student at Intermediate School 364 who died after playing football.
Dariusz Mikolajczak - 2008 Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist. Harry Saint Leger
Garry Saint Leger
Barry Kirk Jackman
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