High school hockey fans facing discipline after vulgar and sexual chants directed at female goalie

All students at Armstrong High School in Pennsylvania have been banned from attending future school hockey games for the remainder of the 2021-22 season and a particular group of students are facing possible discipline for chants of vulgar and sexual nature towards a female goaltender during a game last week.

Kirk Lorigan, who is the principal of Armstrong High School, said he and the rest of the staff are «appalled and embarrassed» by the actions of the student section and the chants that came from them. One of the chants was sexually explicit, and the opposing team's coach Steve Meyers said his goalie was in tears after the second period as a result.

Lorigan was not in attendance at the game and was «disgusted» to learn that no one – from Armstrong parents to two security personnel – did anything about these chants at the time they were happening. Hopefully the students who were responsible for these can be reprimanded properly, as this is something that has no place in the game of hockey or any other facet of life.

The player and her family did not want to comment on the situation. The President of the Mars hockey club, the team the young girl plays for, estimated that 50-60 Armstrong students sat together and acted in unison with the chants.