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Rivera
is a father of four, including an Orange Glen High School basketball player. He lives in Escondido.
I am the father of one of the athletes on the Orange Glen High School varsity basketball team, Axel Rivera, a sophomore. I was embarrassed for him and my other children attending the June 19 championship game against Coronado High School, to have experienced an obviously racist incident, along with his teammates and their families of Mexican descent. It was heartbreaking, wrong and disappointing that this kind of incident still occurs in 2021. We cannot allow this to happen again. The California Interscholastic Federation had the power to make this the last time this ever happens by properly punishing the Coronado players involved in throwing tortillas and the coach for instigating the incident and by stripping the team of its championship as a deterrent for any future incidents. Its punishment was justified.
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The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has vacated Coronado High School s championship title following its investigation of the postgame tortilla-throwing incident that largely overshadowed the matchup with Orange Glen High School of Escondido two weekends ago. In this instance, there is no doubt the act of throwing tortillas at a predominately Latino team is unacceptable and warrants sanctions, the CIF said in part.
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In addition to being stripped of its Division 4-A Regional Championship title, Coronado High was placed on probation through the 2023-24 school year and won t be allowed to host any sectional, regional or state postseason basketball games through the 2022-23 school year. The school s entire athletics program will be barred from hosting postseason play until:
Flores-Charter
is a longstanding member of the Coronado Democratic Club and faculty emeritus at Southwestern College. She lives in Coronado.
My heart is breaking. I am a member of the Coronado Democratic Club who has lived in the city since 1993. Luke Serna, the person who thought it was OK to bring and throw tortillas at a Coronado High School basketball game, was a member of our club for 10 months. Our club is now being targeted as planning this event to force critical race theory on our schools. What? But that’s OK, we can take attacks and lies. We recognize our privilege and as a result our responsibility to continue to educate ourselves and fight for racial justice. A Hispanic friend asked me if Luke had apologized. I had to tell her that not only did he not, that in the June 24 article in The San Diego Union-Tribune a part of Luke’s unsigned letter to the Coronado Unified School District board said, “Those who have inflamed this issue into a racially charged issue shou
CORONADO, Calif.
The governing body for high school sports in California on Wednesday stripped a Southern California high school of its basketball division championship after some of its players threw tortillas at the opposing team, which was from a largely Latino school.
Coronado High School will lose its boys Division 4-A regional championship because of the “degrading and demeaning behavior” following the June 19 division championship game, according to a statement from the California Interscholastic Federation.
At least two students from mostly white Coronado High were captured on video throwing tortillas into the air toward the other team after a 60-57 victory over Orange Glen High School of Escondido.