SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Northern California high school sports coaches see a connection between the disconnect students felt during the COVID-19 pandemic and the sequence of jarring, racist pranks that disrupted games over the past year.
Coaches, athletics directors and administrators are reviewing their ethics training and disciplinary policies, reminding student athletes that discrimination and pranks are not welcome on or off campus.
But even with those policies in place, schools across the region weathered incident after incident.
