Michael James Cole, 28, faces assault charges after allegedly punching a participant — Oregonian It hasn’t been a very good week for Oregon prep soccer coaches.
First, Oregon City (Ore.) High head coach Kevin Strasser was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing and pawning a scholar’s watch. True story.
Later that same night, police apprehended Lake Oswego (Ore.) Lakeridge High volunteer coach Michael James Cole for allegedly assaulting a player during apply, according to another Oregonian report. Bad times.
When a teammate accused Portland State University-sure senior defensive end Marqueese Royster of lacking his assignment, a shoving match ensued and members of the Pacers restrained the 6-foot-1, 251-pound Royster, the report said.
That’s when the 28-12 months-previous Cole, standing 6-foot-7 and 265 kilos, reportedly took it upon himself to resolve the scenario within the worst method possible — by punching the defenseless 17-year-previous Royster within the face. Not good.
“You by no means touch a child. Get off the sphere,” Lakeridge defensive coordinator Jimmie Thomas yelled as he tackled Cole to the bottom, Lake Oswego Police Department spokesman Sgt. Tom Hamann told the Oregonian.
Royster’s mother reportedly called 911 upon witnessing the incident first-hand. He spent the night time in Clackamas County Jail on assault and disorderly conduct prices before posting $1,100 of his $eleven,000 bail. Cole has been suspended from his volunteer post pending an investigation and is scheduled to seem in court next month, the report stated.
Oddly, Cole transferred from Lakeridge to Lake Oswego earlier than a short stint at Portland State during a journeyman post-highschool football career — just as the Portland State-certain Royster transferred from 2011 state champ Lake Oswego to Lakeridge following a sequence of racist tweets directed at him from at the very least three of his classmates.
Any coach worth his salt ought to have been delicate to Royster’s state of affairs, particularly in an age when everybody on any faculty employees should concentrate on the dangers of bullying — cyber or otherwise — however then again Cole was a volunteer, which makes the very fact he’s only been suspended from his submit all the more puzzling.
Another Oregon prep football coach arrested, this time for assault
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