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  • Mountain Vista assistant coach ejected, suspended for role in sideline kerfuffle vs. Valor: What we know

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    HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — An assistant football coach at Mountain Vista High School has been suspended for his role in a sideline skirmish late in its win over Valor Christian Friday night, according to our media partners at The Denver Post.

    People affiliated with both Highlands Ranch schools have reached out to Denver7 since the incident, so we went looking for answers.

    Denver7 obtained two different angles of video showing the kerfuffle, which followed a game-sealing interception by Mountain Vista’s defense with about 30 seconds left in a 38-36 Mountain Vista win.

    One of those videos, taken by a spectator in the stands behind the Mountain Vista sideline, appears to show at least one Valor player being shoved at the tail end of the scuffle.

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    A broadcast angle shows the play that led up to the brawl. After a Hail Mary heave by Valor quarterback Dawson Olk was intercepted, the defensive back returned the ball about 30 yards back upfield. As he appears to be sliding out of bounds, Valor running back Chase Hanosh delivered a big hit to his head and shoulder area.

    Hanosh was flagged for a late hit on the play.

    A chaotic scene ensued, in which several Valor players were mixed in with a crowd of Mountain Vista players. The broadcast footage doesn’t appear to show the physical altercation in question.

    After a nearly four-minute stoppage of play, a referee announced that a Mountain Vista coach had been flagged for a “non-player foul” and ejected from the game for “hitting a player.”

    Mountain Vista’s head coach, Garrett Looney, told The Denver Post that the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) had suspended assistant coach Dylan James for one game as a result of the incident.

    CHSAA didn’t comment on the incident to Denver7, but referred us to its bylaws, which state that a coach who has been ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct “shall be suspended from coaching for 10 percent of the season’s regularly scheduled matches,” automatically placed on probation and required to take some behavioral training courses.

    In a statement sent to Denver7 over the weekend, Valor Head of School Bryan Ritz called the coach’s behavior “unacceptable.”

    “No coach or adult should ever put their hands on a student,” the statement read in part. “Our community expects and deserves better from those entrusted with mentoring young people.”

    A Mountain Vista parent reached out to Denver7, saying the coach did nothing wrong.

    The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office told us an investigation into the incident is ongoing.

    If criminal charges aren’t filed, further discipline for the suspended coach would be decided by the athletic directors at Mountain Vista and the Douglas County School District, according to The Denver Post.

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  • Students plan walkouts across Denver metro area Wednesday to show support for Evergreen after shooting

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    EVERGREEN, Colo. — Students across the Denver metro area will make their voices heard by participating in walkouts Wednesday to take a stance against gun violence and to stand in support with the Evergreen community.

    Students plan walkouts Wednesday to show support for Evergreen after shooting

    The walkouts come one week after the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting at Evergreen High school that critically injured two students and left the suspect dead after officials said he turned the gun on himself.

    Denver7 heard from students at Legacy High School in Broomfield, McAuliffe International School in Denver, Conifer High School, and Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch about demonstrations they were planning.

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    Organizers of the walkout happening at Mountain Vista High School said, in addition to standing in solidarity with the Evergreen community, one of the critical messages they want to send is that no student should be afraid to go to school.

    “The main reason that it matters, that we do something now and we make ourselves heard, is that it’s evident nothing’s going to change if we don’t,” Braeden Kieffer, a junior at Mountain Vista High School and one of the co-organizers of Wednesday’s walkout, said. “If we put our voice out there, we can make sure that we can go to school without living in fear, and that we are able to ensure that this very preventable issue doesn’t continue to claim the lives of students and traumatize 10s of 1,000s over several years.”

    Kieffer emphasized that gun violence affects everyone.

    “Gun violence in schools is something that affects everyone, regardless of their ideology, regardless of their beliefs, regardless of where they are, who they are, and that’s what we want to emphasize with this walkout,” Kieffer said.

    Mia Castellano and Evan Dada are also juniors at Mountain Vista High School and co-organizers of the walkout.

    “No child deserves to live with the trauma of living through a school shooting. No child should have to fear going to school because of a very preventable issue,” Castellano said.

    “I also believe it’s more than just about students too. These are parents’ children that are in danger of being hurt, being killed,” Dada added.

    Both Castellano and Dada shared how their parents were directly involved in tragedies themselves.

    Students plan walkouts Wednesday to show support for Evergreen after shooting

    Castellano said her mother was a senior at Columbine during the tragedy in 1999, and Dada said his mother helped evacuate students during the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting.

    “She was in there, and she now has to live with that trauma for the rest of her life, and she shouldn’t have to worry about me and my sister living through a similar trauma to hers, because nobody’s doing anything to prevent gun violence,” Castellano emphasized.

    Dada added that his mother “knows the feeling and the look of terror on both students and adults faces when they found out, like several of their friends or that several of their kids were injured or even killed.”

    The walkouts at the various schools start at different times. Mountain Vista’s walkout starts at 12:24 p.m. Wednesday — the same time the first Jefferson County Deputy was dispatched to Evergreen last week.

    Students Demand Action will also be hosting a rally at the Colorado Capitol Wednesday morning in support of the Evergreen community.

    They’ll be joined by state representatives and plan to address the impacts of gun violence.

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