Parents Protest at Sweetwater High School

Parents protested in front of Sweetwater High School Thursday morning over their belief that the head football coach was pressured to resign.

According to parents the school did not have enough jerseys or equipment for everyone on the team, so head coach Brian Hay asked the school district for more money.

When the district didn't give any he and several parents raised the money to buy equipment for the team.

Many of the parents feel the coach was punished for trying to help the kids and forced to resign.

Judith Rosales, mother of a freshmen player, got emotional talking when she recalled a conversation she had with her son.

β€œLast night he told me, 'Mom, they took away my dream. They took away my dream of being on a winning team,'" Rosales said. 

Her son had moved schools because he wanted Hay as a coach.

The district said if a student is participating in a sport he/she gets the equipment needed to play.

β€œIf a student is participating in the sport, if they are part of the team, we’re going to make sure they have the proper equipment," Manny Rubio Director of Communications for the Sweetwater Union High School District told NBC7.  "We’re going to do that regardless of what happens.”

The district said the coach resigned for personal reasons. Hay is still on staff as a P.E. teacher.

NBC7 reached out to Hay for comment but has not yet heard back.
 

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