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HS Disciplines Football Coach, Players After Bus Incident

Police: Upperclassmen Taunted Boys With Bottles Of Urine

POSTED: 5:35 pm EDT September 8, 2010
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EDT September 8, 2010

The head football coach at Hamilton Southeastern High School will be suspended and two players disciplined after an incident aboard a team bus following Friday's game.

On the ride home, some upperclassmen got upset after younger teammates criticized their play on the field and began taunting the players with water bottles filled with urine, holding them over the boys' heads, Fishers police said.

"They just started playing with it around my brother, telling him if he gets up, he's going to pour it on him," Ramon Coleman, the brother of one of the 15-year-old victims, told 6News' Renee Jameson.

Superintendent Brian Smith called the incident unacceptable and embarrassing.

He said three coaches, including head coach Scott May, were on the bus at the time, but that they were all sitting up front, in violation of school policy.

"Our policy has been since last year that we need people throughout the bus and, unfortunately, that didn't happen," he said. "A lot of this would have been mitigated very quickly if that had been the case."

May will be suspended from Saturday's game at Lucas Oil Stadium, while two assistant coaches and two athletic directors will face written reprimands.

Smith said two upperclassmen football players will be disciplined in connection with the incident. He said their punishment will involve access to after-school activities, but said he could not disclose the exact terms due to privacy laws.

Fishers police said what happened on the bus does not constitute hazing, and that no charges will be filed.

"If you go off the statutory hazing, it would need to lead to potential serious bodily harm, so it doesn't fit the statute of hazing," said spokesman Randy McFarland.

Smith agreed that the incident did not reach the level of hazing.

"I would call it sophomoric horseplay," he said. "It's unacceptable and, luckily, it didn't become serious. It doesn't make it OK."
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