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Coronado High School’s basketball division regional championship was revoked Wednesday and the school has been placed on probation by the statewide California Interscholastic Federation in the wake of a tortilla throwing incident after the June 19 game against Escondido’s Orange Glen High School.
“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 an announcement Wednesday afternoon. The CIF-San Diego Section said it supports the state group’s decision.
Coronado High’s athletic program also will be on probation until 2024 and its boys basketball team was stripped of its chances to hold postseason games until 2023.
Dunn is a former Orange Glen High School parent and current game announcer and lives in Escondido.
I am the basketball announcer at Orange Glen High School, and last Saturday, I received an invitation to go see the CIF Southern California 4A Championship game, on the road at Coronado High School.
I was also at the game eight days prior in the San Diego Section Division 2 Championship between these same two teams.
The game at Coronado was a great game. Both teams had a chance to win in overtime, with Coronado winning on a last second buzzer beater.
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The team and the fans went wild, as you would expect, running on the court in celebration, and carrying No. 5 Alex Crawford off the court.
Coronado High School stripped of championship title following tortilla-throwing incident
The California Interscholastic Federation has concluded its investigation into an incident in which supporters of the Coronado High School boys basketball team threw tortillas at the visiting team from Orange Glen High School.
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CORONADO, Calif. (KGTV) The California Interscholastic Federation has concluded its investigation into an incident in which supporters of the Coronado High School boys basketball team threw tortillas at the visiting team from Orange Glen High School.
In a news release sent to ABC 10News, the CIF said it issued sanctions against the school. In this instance, there is no doubt the act of throwing tortillas at a predominately Latino team is unacceptable and warrants sanctions,â the federation concluded.
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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:
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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