Six coaches are out at Mariner High School, and the school has told families there was no hazing at the lock-in but there was a lack of supervision

Six coaches are no longer with the Mariner High School football program in Cape Coral, and the school has told families that there was no hazing at the overnight team lock-in but that there was a lack of supervision by staff.

Gulf Coast News and WINK News both reported the account on Tuesday. Gulf Coast News describes the source as an email the high school sent to families that day. WINK News describes it as a letter from Mariner's principal shared by the School District of Lee County. This site does not hold that document. It is a communication to families rather than a published record, and neither the district site nor the school site carries it.

According to that account, head coach Tyran Jones and assistant coach Kaycie Zorbas have been relieved of their coaching duties and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Four assistant coaches who are not district employees had their coaching contracts terminated. Those four are not named by either newsroom and are not named here.

The school gave the reason for the changes as a lack of supervision by staff during the gathering and behavior by certain students.

Students who were at the lock-in are facing disciplinary action under the Student Code of Conduct because of their behavior, the school said. The district did not say what that discipline is, citing the privacy laws that cover student records.

The school also said no hazing took place. That is the school's account of its own inquiry, given to families rather than in a published report, and the internal investigation it describes remains open. It sits against the account this site reported on August 3, in which a relative of a student told WINK News anonymously that members of the team had sprayed the student with a substance the family believed contained urine at the overnight event. No authority has ever confirmed that account, it was attached in the source to unnamed members of the team rather than to any named adult, and it is not asserted here. The two accounts are not reconciled, and this site does not choose between them.

Administrative leave is the standard employment posture while an inquiry runs. It is not discipline and it is not a conclusion. No authority has alleged conduct by Jones or by Zorbas, and no charge has been announced against anyone in connection with this matter.

The separate Cape Coral Police investigation this site reported on August 3 has not been described as closed. Neither newsroom reported any change to it on Tuesday. The Cape Coral Police Department has published nothing of its own on this matter at any point, and its newsroom timed out again without returning any response when it was requested on Tuesday evening.

To keep the program running, Doug Faasse, a Mariner teacher and assistant coach who was not at the lock-in, has been named interim head coach. Assistant coach Luis Esposito, a teacher at Hector A. Cafferata Jr. K-8 who was also not at the lock-in, remains on staff. They are joined by Martin Cardenas and Jake Arbuckle, teachers and coaches at Mariner, and by volunteers Justin McEwen and Adrian Shipman.

The team was informed of the changes at the start of practice. Classes in Lee County begin on August 11.