Personal
As a young boy Nurse played Sunday league football for Wallington Wanderers Football Club under manager tim watson and Carshalton Athletic F.C alongside Premier league footballer Nigel Reo-Coker. From here Nurse progressed onto Kingstonian Football Academy, balancing full-time training with academic studies going onto complete a BTEC National Diploma in Sports Studies and evidently completed a BSc(Hons) Degree in Applied Sports Therapy from 2005 to 2008 at University College Birmingham. Nurse's brother Jon plays for English Football League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge and international football for Barbados.
During Nurse's time with the Puerto Rico Islanders he spearheaded a significant fund raiser for Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of his mother and raised in excess of $6000. The team wore pink jerseys which were raffled after a home fixture.
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