Bountiful High 'moving on' after appeal gets rejected

Bountiful High ‘moving on’ after appeal gets rejected
Scott Schulte 18.DEC.07
MIDVALE — “It’s time to move on.” That is what Bountiful High School principal Ryck Astle has said since losing an appeal to the Utah High School Activities Association on its disciplinary action toward the Braves’ basketball program.

Bountiful was found guilty by the UHSAA of using “undue influence” with regards to basketball players who attended Mueller Park Junior High School. The students in question, according to the UHSAA were swayed to attend Bountiful High rather than Woods Cross, the school in which they reside.

The UHSAA said in its initial findings that Bountiful had used undue influence because a former Bountiful High sophomore basketball coach also coached the Mueller Park team, that the Bountiful boys basketball program took junior high school students, including some living in the Woods Cross boundaries to summer camps where they participated as part of the “Bountiful ninth grade team, and that Braves coach Mike Maxwell had coached a super league team that included students who lived in Woods Cross boundaries.

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