Swallow This...

This is an article that I found on the internet regarding my old High School football team...
I am extremely surprised yet disgusted at the same time...
I attended 1995-1999.
Although, this occurred my Freshman year in college...when i was a Sophomore in HS...i often have the painful memories of running from the Varsity and they would be yelling, " Hey Woody! have you ever had your oil checked?"...

Ex-prep football player sues over 1999 hazing
STEVENSON HIGH Ex-teammates, coach named

June 30, 2009
BY MARK J. KONKOL Staff Reporter/mkonkol@suntimes.com
A 1999 Stevenson High School football player who was sodomized with a broomstick and a banana by his teammates as part of a violent hazing ritual filed a lawsuit last week against his attackers, coaches and former school.
Stamatios Shinas, now 25, who says he was hazed and sexually abused three times, told reporters Monday his attackers took his "pride" and "self-respect" and left him psychologically scarred for life.

Attorney Blake Horwitz, left, talks to client Stamatios Shinas, right, a former Stevenson High School student who claims he was sodomized during hazing for the varsity football team 10 years ago. (Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)

"I don't trust anyone anymore," Shinas said.
Shinas' lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court seeks damages from former Stevenson football players Blake Cooley, David Davis, Alex Holden and Tiquion Clay, who currently is serving 120 years in prison for raping a 78-year-old Vernon Hills woman in May 2001- Wow! are you serious?

The four Pioneer players each pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in Lake County stemming from the 1999 hazing. Davis and Cooley were charged with battery but pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges for their part in the incident. They were fined $100 and placed on supervision.

Holden pleaded guilty to four counts of disorderly conduct and Clay pleaded guilty to one count. Holden and Clay were sentenced to community service, fined $100 and required to write a 300-word essay on respect for other students.

Shinas' civil lawsuit also targets 1999 varsity coaches Craig Sincora, Bob Mackey, Paul Swan, Lee Jonathan, Mike Fitzgerald, Mike Warren and Bill Mitz. None of the coaches was charged criminally. Shinas' attorney, Blake Horwitz, said the coaches were included in the civil lawsuit because they allegedly were aware of the hazing and did nothing about it.

Stevenson High School officials declined comment, according to the principal's assistant.
Shinas said he waited 10 years to file the civil lawsuit because his two brothers attended Stevenson and he did not want them to be ridiculed because of what happened to him.

The lawsuit does not include a price tag sought for damages, but Horwitz said Monday he's seeking more than $1 million.

But more than money, Shinas said said the goal of the lawsuit is to make sure "this will not happen again, so someone can play football or any other sport they wanted in peace."