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- Cedar Valley High School baseball coaches are on leave amid an investigation.
- The Alpine School District is probing reports of inappropriate behavior and inadequate supervision during a trip.
- The school canceled a game and plans to resume competition after spring break.
EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Coaches of the Cedar Valley High School baseball team have been put on leave amid an investigation, the Alpine School District said Thursday.
The district is investigating reports of "inappropriate behavior and inadequate supervision involving the Cedar Valley High baseball team during a school-sponsored athletic trip," district spokesman Rich Stowell said in a statement.
In addition to the coaches being placed on leave, the school has cancelled its game scheduled for Thursday and intends to "resume competition following spring break," which runs April 1 through April 4.
Stowell did not elaborate, but said inappropriate behavior is "anything that violates the student code of conduct or the employee code of conduct policies."
"We have the expectation that all of our student activities are adequately supervised. We don't know exactly what happened yet and we're finding that out," Stowell said. "We know that there were the right number of adults on the trip, but you know sometimes with these things, certain parts or moments during those activities might have not been supervised appropriately, and so that's really what we're trying to find out right now."
Currently, the investigation is only being conducted at the district level, Stowell said.
He also pointed out that the district has not "heard the word hazing and we haven't used the word hazing" but said it is something administrators are going to look into.
"We don't tolerate hazing and we don't tolerate, really, any inappropriate behavior that that could be construed as hazing. Our administrators are going to find out what happened and then we'll deal with it and we will learn from it and we'll make sure that our students and our athletes can participate in these activities safely," Stowell said.
