A Texas high school student who led his school's basketball team to the state finals has been exposed as a 22-year-old Haitian man posing as a teenager.

Guerdwich Montimere, a naturalised US citizen born in Haiti, registered himself as a 16-year-old student at Permian High School for the 2009/10 school year, the Associated Press reported.

Teen basketball star revealed as fraud

Arrested on Tuesday night, Montimere could face up to six months in prison for the misdemeanour.

Wow that sucks for his team. Why didn't he just join a team who were his age..