AD on Leave Over Football Camp Back-Slapping Game

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The athletics director at Arizona Lutheran Academy in Phoenix has been placed on leave over a back-slapping game that took place during football camp in 2017.

The camp, held in Flagstaff in the late summer of that year, included a locker room back-slapping game among teammates that left red welts on their skin, according to student sources cited by azfamily.com. Arizona Lutheran Academy athletic director David Peter then entered the locker room and students say he chose to participate in the game upon one player's invitation. Video shows one of the students slapping Peter’s bare back. After the slap, students say Peter told everyone to turn off their phones. That’s when he allegedly hit the student back.

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