Chief Sealth stripped of 2 basketball titles

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Chief Sealth stripped of state titles
By Christine Willmsen and Michael Ko
Seattle Times staff reporters
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The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association stripped the Chief Sealth High School girls basketball team of its two state championships and forced it to forfeit all of its games for the past four seasons for illegally recruiting players.

Tuesday, the WIAA executive board responded to the recruiting scandal with one of the strongest penalties in the history of high-school athletics nationally. Chief Sealth, a public high school in West Seattle, will have to return the Class 3A state-title trophies for 2005 and 2006.

No team will be declared state champion for either year.

"It's just kind of bad when you look up there and you see no state champion for two years," said Bill Wirtzberger, the former coach at Lacey's River Ridge High School, which lost the 2005 state championship game to Chief Sealth. "I wonder if that's why they're not putting it up there â€â€