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At first he dismissed the talk as just rumors, the wishful
thinking of high school football players and their raging
hormones and overactive teenage imaginations.

It was fall 2005 and the player had just worked his way into the
starting lineup at Colton High School when he began to hear his
teammates talk about standout players receiving �special
treatment� of a sexual nature from the school�s athletic trainer
Tiffany Gordon, the daughter of the Yellowjackets legendary head
coach Harold Strauss, the architect of what has been described
as Colton�s pipeline to the National Football League.

The players, according to court filings and interviews, even had
a name for the practice: �getting spatted.�

A season later the player, by now one of the area�s top college
prospects, was in the school�s training room waiting for Gordon
to treat a leg injury.

�Are you ready to be a superstar?� Gordon asked as she massaged
his leg, according to court documents.

She then proceeded to fondle his genitals, according to a court
filing.

The player was 16 at the time.

In a series of interviews with the Southern California News
Group and a lawsuit filed against Gordon and the Colton Joint
Unified School District in San Bernardino County Superior Court,
six former Colton players allege Gordon sexually assaulted,
abused and molested them with the knowledge of Strauss and other
Yellowjackets coaches over a six-year period between 2001 and
2007.

The interviews and court filing detail allegations of how Gordon
routinely had sexual intercourse with and performed oral sex on
players who were between the ages of 14 and 17 in the school�s
locker room, training room, bathrooms, weight room and football
trailer as well as at her parents� house during weekly meetings
between the coaches and top players. One player alleged in an
interview and the lawsuit that Gordon had sex with him at least
50 times during his senior year at Colton High, when he was 17.

UPDATE: 3 more former Colton players come forward allegine
sexual misconduct

�The sheer volume of oral copulation and sexual intercourse
occurring between Gordon and the minor student-athletes was not
insignificant, and Defendants knew or should have known of the
blatant sexual misconduct occurring between Gordon and� the
players, the suit alleges.

A former player, referred to in the lawsuit at John Doe 7044,
recounted in an interview and a court filing how a Colton
assistant coach walked into the school�s locker room while
Gordon was performing oral sex on the player.

�This coach did not stop the assault but rather, immediately
left the room,� the lawsuit alleges.

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Gordon was performing oral sex on a player identified as John
Doe 7046 in the locker room with the lights off on Halloween
2007 when Strauss entered the room, according to interviews and
the lawsuit.

�When Coach Strauss made his way through the locker room, he
confronted the two and asked why the lights were off,� the suit
said. �Gordon made excuses, claiming they were just cleaning up
and leaving.�

During the 2005 season, a photo depicting Gordon performing oral
sex on a man was widely circulated among Colton High varsity
players who believed the other person in the photo was one of
their teammates, according to the lawsuit.

�It was later determined that the photograph actually depicted
Gordon orally copulating another Colton High School coach. This
event made it clear that Gordon�s sexual misconduct was
pervasive and certainly not secretive,� according to the lawsuit.

�What happened at Colton High School is unacceptable,� said
Brian Williams, an attorney for the alleged survivors. �While at
school, students are entitled to feel safe and must be
protected. School officials have an obligation to safeguard kids
from sexual misconduct, and report any suspicious or improper
conduct. None of that occurred in this situation and the time
has come to hold those involved accountable.�

Gordon is now the athletic director at Grand Terrace High School
in the CJUSD. �She went from a place of power to more power,�
John Doe 7042 said. She is currently on a leave of absence, a
school official said. She did not respond to multiple requests
for comment. The CJUSD declined to say when Gordon was placed on
leave or whether she is being paid while on leave.

The CJUSD has hired a Sacramento law firm to conduct an
investigation into the allegations against Gordon. It is the
same law firm that Mater Dei hired last year to investigate
allegations of bullying and other misconduct within the school�s
football and athletic programs.

�From the moment the District was presented with the
allegations, we immediately took decisive action by placing the
party in question on administrative leave, as well as contacting
the Colton Police Department,� CJUSD spokesperson Katie Orlof
said in a statement. �The District has made itself, and will
continue to make itself, completely available to the Colton
Police Department. The District is committed to ensuring that
law enforcement has access to all of the facts and information
for their investigation.

�Although the current administrative team members were not in
leadership roles with the District 20 years ago, the district
leadership team is extremely concerned about the allegations
being made. Our commitment is always to the safety and well-
being of our students, families and staff, and we will work with
local law enforcement to protect our community and lend our
support to any victims in this case.�

Under California law charges for misdemeanor statutory rape must
be filed within one year, three-years for felony statutory rape.

SCNG does not name the survivors of sexual abuse.

The lawsuit was filed in the three-year window created by
Assembly Bill 218, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin
Newsom in 2019 and went into effect January 1, 2020.

Under the new law, alleged survivors have a three-year period to
file past claims that had expired under the state�s statute of
limitations.

Alleged survivors must file civil suits within eight years of
becoming an adult or three years from the date an adult survivor
�discovers� or should have discovered they were sexually abused,
under current California law.

Two sets of rules
Interviews conducted earlier this month with the former Colton
players and court filings portray a football-obsessed school and
a community more concerned about success on the gridiron and a
national reputation as a launch pad to the NFL than the safety
and mental health of some of the same players who put Colton on
the radar of college coaches and pro scouts.

�They wanted our team to win titles and (expletive) and not make
waves,� a former player, referred to in the lawsuit as John Doe
7042, said in an interview.

At Colton High, the players said, there seemed to be two sets of
rules: one for Strauss, Gordon and the Yellowjackets football
program and another, far more strict, set for everyone else at
the school.

�It was like the football program was bigger than the school,�
John Doe 7044 said in an interview.

Players and coaches talked openly on an almost daily basis about
Gordon having sex with players, the former players alleged in
interviews and in the lawsuit.

The �CJUSD, through its coaching staff, knew, tolerated,
encouraged, and sanctioned Gordon�s conduct,� the suit alleges.

Coaches, like players, even joked about Gordon�s sex abuse, the
players said in interviews and court filings.

The term �spatted,� referring to the practice of taping a
player�s ankle over his shoes either for support or style, took
on a new meaning at Colton. As players and coaches lined up to
get into the training room or locker room they wisecracked that
they were waiting to get �spatted,� their word for receiving
sexual favors from Gordon, according to interviews and the
lawsuit.

John Doe 7046 recalled standing in line with an assistant coach
who cracked that the player was �getting spatted� before him,
according to the lawsuit.

�It became like a running joke,� John Doe 7044 said. �We were
not only victimized but we became the butt of a joke.�

The former players in interviews and the lawsuit also shine
light on the still pervasive, if somewhat dwindling, cultural
double standard of how the sexual abuse of underage males by
females in positions of authority is viewed differently than men
sexually abusing girls or boys.

�This is a very important story,� said David Finkelhor, director
of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University
of New Hampshire.

Two decades after they first encountered Gordon, the former
players said their lives continued to be impacted by what
allegedly took place in the Colton High locker and training
rooms. They have been hounded by issues with authority, trust,
sex, and intimacy. They have suffered from depression.