LYTLE, Texas – A Lytle High School football player is recovering after they were injured during a “roughhousing incident” with 18 other players, according to the school’s head football coach.
In a letter to parents obtained by KSAT, Mike Trevino, the high school’s head football coach and boys athletic coordinator, wrote that the dispute happened on Wednesday after football practice.
Trevino said one coach broke up the altercation, which injured the player.
According to the coach, the player received “appropriate care.” The severity of the player’s injury is unclear.
“This type of behavior is never acceptable in Lytle ISD,” Trevino also wrote in the letter. “Our coaching staff has already implemented new supervision and locker room procedures to ensure all players clearly understand the line between friendly play and actions that can cause harm.”
Trevino said the team will participate in a “mandatory community service day.”
In a statement to KSAT, Lorrianne Migura, the district’s public relations director, said those involved have been given a “suspension consequence of varying degrees of severity.”
“While the Varsity football team will play with a reduced number of players, the game against Poteet is Parent Night for our Dance, Cheer and Band students, and we did not feel all our students, athletes, and their families should be affected by the choices of one group,” Migura said. “As soon as an administrator was informed of the incident, the student was checked by the school nurse who immediately contacted parents.”
Additional information was not released.
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