Clark School reinstated a coach earlier positioned on depart for alleged inappropriate conduct with feminine athletes.
Owen Frasier, 40, returned final week as Clark’s head coach for the lads’s and girls’s monitor and subject groups.
Clark School concluded its inner investigation in early February, she mentioned.
“Coach Frasier’s regular communication as a coach remains unchanged,” Chan-Hefflin mentioned. “He will continue to engage with student-athletes in a professional and appropriate manner, consistent with his role.”
Vancouver police earlier mentioned a legal investigation of Frasier had closed with out prices being referred to prosecutors.
“If we are made aware that staff are under investigation by law enforcement for conduct potentially related to student safety our standard practice is to place them on leave,” Roberts mentioned.
Legal investigation
The police investigation began Nov. 1, in response to a Vancouver police incident report obtained Friday by The Columbian beneath the state’s Public Data Act.
Levi Cantrell, a bus driver for Evergreen Public Faculties and volunteer Clark School monitor and subject coach, instructed Vancouver police that a number of Clark college students got here to him about Frasier appearing inappropriately towards feminine athletes. He mentioned he reported it to Clark School, in response to the police report.
The allegations included Frasier texting athletes late at evening, favoring feminine athletes, taking screenshots of athletes’ photographs, asking athletes about their relationship statuses, liking college students’ bikini photographs on social media, and hugging and inserting his hand on the small of an athlete’s decrease again, in response to courtroom data and the police report.
Frasier was named Clark School’s head cross nation and monitor and subject coach in 2022. He spent 12 years as Fort Vancouver Excessive College’s cross nation coach till accepting the faculty teaching job. He constructed the Fort girls and boys applications. He was named Northwest Athletic Convention Southern Area Males’s Coach of the Yr in his first yr teaching cross nation at Clark and NWAC Ladies’s Coach of the Yr for monitor, in response to his athletics bio.