Niwot's star runner (Culpepper) got DQ'ed over the weekend for flipping a competitor off and 1600 time from that race didn't count for state qualification and he was left sitting a spot out of qualifying. Instead of making him suffer the consequences of his poor desicion making, Niwot didn't enter a runner who had earned his spot and Culpepper got the last spot in the 1600.
High school sports is about more than winning and losing, it's also about teaching kids the life lessons to become responsible adults. It's deeply shameful the coaches would let and athlete skirt the consequences of their actions, especially because they are making an entirely innocent athlete suffer the consequences.
The coach(s) responsible for this desicion should be suspended or fired, this kind of desicionmaking has no place in high school sports. If nothing is done, parents shouldn't send their kids to Niwot, as it would failed as a school, prioritizing immediate and shallow success over the long term growth of its students.