Raleigh high school lacrosse player reprimanded after lewd social media post
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- Athens Drive will assign appropriate consequences after a lewd altered image circulated.
- Red Cup Jags Instagram account photoshopped Broughton students into a sexualized image.
- Parents urged school action, calling the posts degrading and threatening.
Athens Drive High School said “appropriate consequences will be assigned” after a social media post showed members of the school’s boys’ lacrosse team in a lewd altered image with students from another school.
The now-deleted Instagram post that went up before the school’s Friday lacrosse game against Broughton contained a photo of several uniformed Athens Drive players with images of four female Broughton High School students edited into it to create an altered lewd image. In an email Monday, Athens Drive athletic director Travis Seese told parents who complained about the post that the school will respond.
“We were made aware of the social media post and associated account after school on Friday,” Seese said in an email Monday to parent Eric David. “Appropriate consequences will be assigned today in accordance with the school board policy.”
Seese told David that he’s unable to share specific student consequences. But Lisa Luten, a Wake County school spokesperson, confirmed that one student was disciplined over the post.
Seese and Amanda Boshoff, Athens Drive’s principal, didn’t respond to a request for comment from The News & Observer.
Instagram account engaged in ‘misogynistic content’
The Broughton image isn’t an isolated incident, according to David, the parent of a lacrosse player at both Broughton and Enloe high schools.
The now-deleted “Red Cup Jags” Instagram account said it’s not affiliated with Athens Drive. But David said in an email Saturday to Seese and Boshoff that the Instagram page is known by every player in the conference for its “degrading and misogynistic content” aimed at Athens Drive lacrosse opponents.
“Players on other teams have now learned to take down their own social media pages to ensure that the account doesn’t use them to mock and harass the players, their girlfriends, and their families,” David wrote.
David cited a now-deleted post on the same Instagram account showing a “mocking picture” of the mother of one of Enloe High’s lacrosse players. The photoshopped image shows a creature about to bite the woman’s neck.
Post went ‘further into the gutter’
But David said the worst example was the post featuring the Broughton High students.
“Before the Broughton game, the owners of the @redcupjags account sunk further into the gutter by using Broughton student social media pages to create a photoshopped image of identifiable (presumably minor) female Broughton students performing a sex act on identifiable Athens Drive players (wearing Athens Drive jerseys),” David wrote.
The social media posts have gone too far, said Agnes Stevens, the parent of lacrosse players at Broughton and Enloe.
“I consider it to be threatening and demeaning and completely inappropriate,” Stevens said in an interview Monday.
David told Athens Drive leaders that action needed to be taken now, including suspending the owner of the Red Cup Jags account, for the rest of the lacrosse season.
“If there are not real consequences, then school administration will be complicit in the conduct,” David wrote. “It is long past time for the adults in the room to act.”
This story was originally published April 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM.
