Temecula college trustees in sizzling water for ‘OnlyFans’ crack about teen boys in swim briefs

Two California college board members are being ripped for evaluating shirtless teen water polo gamers in school-issued Speedos to unique dancers and adult-content creators.

Temecula Valley Unified Faculty District Board President Joseph Komrosky and trustee Jen Wiersma got here beneath hearth after weighing in on a photograph of six Temecula Valley Excessive Faculty water polo gamers cheering on the baseball staff with B-E-A-R-S-! written throughout their chests.

The athletes had been carrying their brown-and-yellow staff swim briefs when the picture was posted to the highschool baseball staff’s Instagram web page with the caption “Our followers > higher than yours. GO BEARS,” The Press-Enterprise reported.

However the spirited school-pride put up shortly was a political firestorm after Komrosky allegedly mentioned the boys appeared “one step nearer to Chippendales,” whereas Wiersma known as them an “Solely Followers crew.”

Guardian Sharon Sardina, whose son was among the many water polo gamers pictured, advised the outlet the teenagers had stopped by a baseball sport between swim meets on April 28 and pulled down their pants to disclose their staff uniforms whereas cheering from the stands.

“The followers beloved it, the staff beloved it, the baseball coach beloved it,” Sardina mentioned. “All people beloved the help and thought that was fairly cool as a result of that’s sometimes what water polo gamers do so far as cheering on their groups.”

The picture has since been faraway from the baseball staff’s account, although it was not clear when or why.

Sardina mentioned Wiersma later reposted the picture to her Instagram story with black packing containers protecting the scholars swim briefs and wrote: “talking of gown code … are our groups now an ‘Solely Followers’ crew? Hats off to the youngsters that saved their pants on.

The story put up later disappeared, and Wiersma additionally posted an apology to her Instagram story, Sardina mentioned.

Komrosky and Wiersma each declined to remark to the Press-Enterprise, and it was not clear whether or not Komrosky had apologized.

Screenshots offered to the newspaper by Jeff Pack, co-founder of the One Temecula Valley PAC, confirmed Komrosky and Wiersma discussing the picture within the feedback part of a separate put up a couple of group survey on the district’s gown code.

“Working example Jen. Go check out the TVHS baseball web page on FB. Simply 5 hours in the past they posted an image the place a lot of the boys had their pants down in underwear,” Komrosky wrote, in keeping with the screenshots. “You inform me if that’s appropiate for a baseball staff?”

Komrosky praised two college students who saved their pants up, saying they’d “character,” and argued the district wanted a stronger gown coverage and self-discipline for college kids who refused to comply with it.

Wiersma allegedly replied that the staff gave the impression to be posting “Solely Followers sort” pictures and headlines of athletes, in keeping with the screenshots.

“Requirements matter,” she wrote. “And this will likely properly generate a complete new degree of dialog about gown code.”

The remarks sparked dozens of feedback, with some dad and mom accusing the trustees of sexualizing college students.

“If that is the soar, you shouldn’t be round children,” one Instagram person wrote. “As a dad or mum, it seems like swim boys playing around and supporting their associates.”

Others defended the trustees, arguing the unique picture mustn’t have been posted on-line as a result of it may appeal to predators.

Komrosky later doubled down on his considerations within the feedback, writing that the boys may help the baseball staff “professionally.”

“My concern is that I are not looking for them to seem like they’re in a sexually provocative strip tease wanting like they’re one step nearer to the Chippensales,” Komrosky wrote. “We don’t want that in our college district in our group.”

Sardina mentioned she and her husband have since met with the superintendent, a compliance officer and the principal — and are demanding greater than a short lived social media apology.

“I’d love a written and verbal apology, not simply to myself, however to the youngsters concerned in our staff,” she mentioned. “I truthfully, I’d love a proper resignation.”

She accused the trustees of objectifying the scholars to bolster their push for a brand new gown code.

“It wasn’t concerning the intent, it was concerning the influence and duty that they maintain as a public determine, as a board member of our college,” Sardina mentioned. “They … at the moment are sexualizing minors, which creates a reputational danger for not simply my boy, however our household and the staff.”

Komrosky and Wiersma had been a part of a conservative majority elected to the Temecula college board in 2022.

The beforehand backed a ban on essential race principle, a flag ban and a dad or mum notification coverage. The latter two insurance policies had been rescinded in late 2024 after a public Employment Relations Board ruling.

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