STA vs Wilson Game: Fighting and Drinking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wilson’s Athletic Director was there. He should be identifying trouble makers and dishing out punishments. STA staff should be doing the same.
This isn’t the first time these schools have met. There are very close and it’s kind of a rivalry game.

That's probably exactly what's happening. The tournament was cancelled, not one team kicked out.

[Anonymous]

I attended a girls volleyball game at Wilson earlier this year and was appalled at the Wilson fans’ aggressive lack of sportsmanship. They were totally out of control. The DCSAA and Wilson’s own AD and faculty were powerless to stop them. I’ve watched games there in prior years, and this was totally different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I attended a girls volleyball game at Wilson earlier this year and was appalled at the Wilson fans’ aggressive lack of sportsmanship. They were totally out of control. The DCSAA and Wilson’s own AD and faculty were powerless to stop them. I’ve watched games there in prior years, and this was totally different.

Why? Being totally serious... Why?

[Anonymous]

I talked to a Wilson student who was at the game. He said he did not see or smell anyone drinking beer or smoking weed at the game. He did say the two student fan sections were both chanting and having verbal exchanges during the game. He also said when the game ended the STA administrators steered all the Wilson students to use an exit that forced them to walk past the STA student section. This resulted in more two-way jawing as the Wilson fans tried leaving the gym. One water bottle was lofted into the STA student section and then was hurled back down at the Wilson kids. This student didn’t linger after the game but to his knowledge punches were thrown.

[Anonymous]

EDIT: the last sentence above should say NO punches were thrown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended a girls volleyball game at Wilson earlier this year and was appalled at the Wilson fans’ aggressive lack of sportsmanship. They were totally out of control. The DCSAA and Wilson’s own AD and faculty were powerless to stop them. I’ve watched games there in prior years, and this was totally different.

Why? Being totally serious... Why?

I have no idea. It was pretty disheartening. It was the semi-finals of the girls volletball DCSAA. There seemed to be a few leaders among the Wilson students who got a big group of the most vocal students to move over en masse to the student fan section for the other school. They seemed to be pretty thrilled with themselves for taking over the opposing fan section. There was a lot of cursing, foul language and taunting of the other school’s fans. The opposing school fans were really outnumbered and pretty much just didn’t respond. It was an ugly scene. An adminstrator tried pretty unsuccessfully to encourage the Wilson students to move back to their own fan section. Then when Wilson won, those same fans spent more energy taunting the opposing fans than actually cheering for their own really great team. Again this is so different from my exoeriences watching games at Wilson for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By all accounts the Wilson students were totally out of control. Shocking behavior.

And none of the STA were out of control? Is that what you’re saying?

STA has BEEF club that is a cheering section that gets rowdy at games and some parents from other schools don't like the visuals of males cheering in unison or chanting a fight song... these same parents have no problem with girls in short skirts who are all picked for their looks cheering as cheerleaders, but somehow BEEF club gets judged.

That's about the max of rowdy it gets on STA side. Sounds like Wilson community behaved like real sore sports. I'm sure all do realize that there are micro phoned cameras everywhere and they are of a very high resolution.

Every car entering or leaving the campus also has its plate scanned and time/date stamped and the drivers faces are visible on film even at night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By all accounts the Wilson students were totally out of control. Shocking behavior.

And none of the STA were out of control? Is that what you’re saying?

LOL right? That was my first reaction. Of course they were *total angels* because the subtext of this terrible thread is that white/rich kids from a private school can do no wrong and public school kids are out of control (btw my kid is at a Big 3). OP go get some sensitivity training.

WRONG.

Actually, here is the OP's title to the Thread: 'STA vs Wilson Game: Fighting and Drinking"

The OP's post is similarly equivocal.

Someone unrelated posted that they saw similar Wilson student/fan behavior at a GIRLS Volleyball game.

Clearly, its YOU who thinks Wilson are "poor little angels who the world has put down who do nothing wrong actually "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the tournament was canceled. Can’t they exclude Wilson from the tournament? Or let the team play but no fans or limited fans such as parents and families

Because competing in sport is a earned privilege, not a right and the minimum expectation to earn that privilege is good sportsmanship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wilson’s Athletic Director was there. He should be identifying trouble makers and dishing out punishments. STA staff should be doing the same.
This isn’t the first time these schools have met. There are very close and it’s kind of a rivalry game.

Yeah, anyone can easily identify all 2000 students at the school. /s

[Anonymous]

Lot of class warfare on display here, but objectively those who’ve been around both Wilson and St. Albans know iWilson students more regularly engage in more disruptive, obscenity-laden behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Stealing phones.”

That’s a little beyond bad language.

Also bad form to suggest ALL the Wilson kids stole phones.

Huh? No one is suggesting this. You're being obtuse just to be difficult.

"... the behavior by Wilson fans was extreme. At halftime, they moved into the STA student section and ransacked backpacks. They later posted videos of themselves in ski masks with stolen STA clothing and other items."

OK, so maybe its just unclear grammar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lot of class warfare on display here, but objectively those who’ve been around both Wilson and St. Albans know iWilson students more regularly engage in more disruptive, obscenity-laden behavior.

None that I know. Wilson is a very big school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By all accounts the Wilson students were totally out of control. Shocking behavior.

And none of the STA were out of control? Is that what you’re saying?

LOL right? That was my first reaction. Of course they were *total angels* because the subtext of this terrible thread is that white/rich kids from a private school can do no wrong and public school kids are out of control (btw my kid is at a Big 3). OP go get some sensitivity training.

Try to see reality of the events based on location. STA kids in their gym will be surrounded by administration and teachers. They're not bring beer and joints. And they're going to be shut down if they get out of line. But you cannot process that because it does not fit the class issues you try to promote. Perhaps one day you can see the forest for the trees and not call everything in a knee-jerk reaction a class/race issue. But likely not.

This. Location is key. No one is saying that STA kids are perfect or don't misbehave, drink beer, or smoke pot - they're teenagers like kids at all these high schools. But undoubtedly most are smart enough to not do that in their school gym. Just like the Wilson kids probably would not have done that in their school gym where teachers and administrators who know their names are watching.

Actually, STA written and enforced school policy is that underage drinking is illegal - wherever it occurs and if an STA student engages in this whether on campus, off campus at a student party or at another school- the penalty is up to and including expulsion.

The son of a sitting Vice President of the United States was asked to leave the school for smoking pot.

So, no, the decorum is what matters, not the location

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By all accounts the Wilson students were totally out of control. Shocking behavior.

Shocking but not at all surprising.

Not at all surprising.