RAINIER VALLEY - The world’s best high school basketball player shows up at Seattle’s Rainier Beach on the eve of the 2025-26 hoops season. Two weeks earlier, he’d withdrawn from a California prep school after a series of suspensions and fights. Seeking somewhere to play, an agent steered him towards the Rainier Valley public school...and a district already on the edge of collapse from a series of ongoing athletic corruption crises.
The world’s best high school basketball player shows up at Seattle’s Rainier Beach on the eve of the 2025-26 hoops season. Two weeks earlier, he’d withdrawn from a California prep school after a series of suspensions and fights. Seeking somewhere to play, an agent steered him towards the Rainier Valley public school...and a district already on the edge of collapse from a series of ongoing athletic corruption crises.
And yet seemingly, special benefits were provided to Stokes, who began playing immediately, even as local students who transferred using the WIAA’s proscribed system, sat on the bench watching, paying a price of 40% of the season’s games. With the WIAA and the world watching and a high-profile, likely ineligible player suiting up, what’s next? Part 1 in a J425 series on the crisis of accountability in Seattle Public Schools athletics looks at the transfer of Tyran Stokes.
And yet seemingly, special benefits were provided to Stokes, who began playing immediately, even as local students who transferred using the WIAA’s proscribed system, sat on the bench watching, paying a price of 40% of the season’s games. With the WIAA and the world watching and a high-profile, likely ineligible player suiting up, what’s next? Part 1 in a J425 series on the crisis of accountability in Seattle Public Schools athletics looks at the transfer of Tyran Stokes.
https://www.thejournal425.com/p/likely-ineligible-five-star-hooper
