Syracuse's Brisly Estime - relation to Dadi Nicolas?

By: TheDoug82 on October 13, 2016, 7:06 AM | 5 comments

Syracuse's 'other' receiver, Brisly Estime, comes from Haiti via Delray Beach.

So did Dadi. Dadi's name was Wedley Estime.

As far as I can tell, both went to Atlantic Highschool, though Brisly's adds "community" in his bio, and they played for different head coaches. A Google search only shows one Atlantic Highschool in Delray Beach.

Brisly's mother is Marcaline Estime, and Dadi's bio does not reveal his Biological mother's name other than he didn't meet her until he was a junior and he was raised by Esperanta Estime.

This could very easily be a case of athletic Haitians growing up in a similar community but the similarities kept growing. Does anyone know?

Charley Wiles has a thing for finding under the radar athletes from that area, so I was curious if Brisly was being looked at and if there was a relation.

NOTE: Virginia Tech is good at that family thing historically

Also, I apologize for misspellings. Auto-correct is in overdrive with several of the names.

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jerseyhokie29's picture jerseyhokie29 | 9 years 9 months #

They're related, don't remember if brothers or cousins. Brisly had some academic issues in HS I think (was older than 18 upon graduation). Syracuse worked out well for him, particularly for special teams.

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Zeke's picture Zeke
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| 9 years 9 months #

From our very own Alex --

I also took note of Brisly Estime — I recognized the name, since I believe he's related to one of our old players (Dadi Nicolas, formerly known as Wedley Estime)

Here.

It could be worse.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 9 months #

OT but tangentially related: does anyone know why Dadi changed his name? I guess I always assumed it was to take hid mother's name, but apparently she is also an Estime.

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 9 years 9 months # ^

I mean it was Wedley... I'd want to avoid sounding like a Hoo booster as well

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DCHokie02's picture DCHokie02 | 9 years 9 months # ^

He was born Dadi Nicolas but moved to the U.S. at 3 months old. His name was changed at that time to Wedley Estime to match his adopted parents' surname. He then changed his name back to Dadi Nicolas the summer before starting college.

Per Dadi.