Susan E. Wagner High School principal Gary Giordano has told parents of football players that varsity and JV teams will not be practicing or playing in games while the city Department of Education looks into reports of hazing at the team’s training camp in August.
The report comes just days after six of the seven teenagers charged with sexually abusing teammates in a football hazing scandal at Sayreville High School in New Jersey last fall were sentenced to probation and 50 hours each of community service.
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.
