Washington School District Buries Female Wrestler’s Sexual Assault Complaint Against Male Opponent
A Washington school district allowed a 16-year-old girl to wrestle a boy in December without disclosing the boy’s sex.
When the high school sophomore revealed her male opponent sexually assaulted her during the match, school officials sat on the allegations for nearly two months — involving the police only after the press picked up the story.
Kallie Keeler started wrestling when she learned to walk. Though no stranger to the physicality of her sport, the Rogers High School student never experienced a match like the one she wrestled against Emerald Ridge High School on December 6, 2025.
“That has never happened, out of all the years I’ve wrestled,” Keeler told Brandi Kruse of the Undivided podcast, who broke the story.
Kruse did not ask Keeler to describe the assault on the podcast, summarizing her opponent had “reached between [Keeler’s] legs and very forcefully, for several seconds, tried to [sexually penetrate] her.”
Keeler’s mom unwittingly captured the alleged assault on video. Mid-match, the 16-year-old’s face registers confusion and disgust. She mouths something at the camera before trying to squirm away.
Soon after, she allowed herself to be pinned just so she could get off the mat.
“I didn’t really know what to do or how to handle the situation,” Keeler told Kruse. “I just wanted the match to be over.”
When Keeler told her mom what happened during the bout, she still believed her opponent was female. A coach soon informed her she had wrestled a boy.
“I was really shocked at first,” Keeler recalled her reaction. “It’s a women’s [high school] wrestling team, so I wasn’t really … concerned about that.”
The boy Keeler wrestled in December is one of two boys on Emerald Ridge High School’s women’s wrestling team. In late January, Kruse reported more than 12 girls asked school leadership to make the boys change in a different area, alleging the duo would come into the locker room just to watch the girls change.
Emerald Ridge reportedly responded by refreshing the girls on Washington public schools’ commitment to gender-inclusivity.
The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) requires public schools allow students to use facilities and participate in sports consistent with their “gender identity,” rather than their sex. While schools must provide any student private facilities upon request, administrators cannot force transgender-identified students to use separate facilities unless they request it.
Both boys reportedly agreed to use a separate changing facility at first. Kruse’s sources claim the agreement lasted just one day.
Keeler reached out to Undivided when it released the story about Emerald Ridge’s wrestling team. By then, she’d waited more than a month for Rogers High School to act on her allegations.
Though Washington law requires educators report claims of sexual assault to police within 48 hours, Keeler’s coaches, athletic director and principle allegedly failed to do so.
That changed on January 29, when Undivided reached out to Rogers High School regarding Keeler’s story. Just one day later, the school notified the Pierce Police Department about the sophomore’s experience.
Rogers subsequently responded to Undivided, claiming it couldn’t share any details about the ongoing investigation but that “student safety is a top priority and that all reports involving student safety are taken seriously.”
Failing to comply with mandatory reporting requirements can result in penalties of up to a year in prison and $5,000 in fines, Kruse notes. Why would four Rogers High School administrators allegedly risk such legal trouble?
It’s not a difficult question. Washington has made “gender-inclusivity” part of its social, political and legislative identity. School officials have little incentive to investigate claims like Keeler’s, which impugn the wisdom and morality of the state’s stance, and every incentive to keep claims of abuse out of the public eye.
“Everyone hoped Kallie Keeler would just drop it,” Kruse surmised. “But she’s a 16-year-old who has more courage than most adults in the state of Washington.”
While Washington’s political and social elite fight for transgender-identified students to, effectively, do what they like, Kruse asks the obvious:
“Who’s fighting for the girls?”
Washingtonians submitted two initiatives to the state legislature in January — one to protect parents’ rights in education and the other to prevent males from competing in female sports.
To learn more about the initiatives and what you can do to help, read the Daily Citizen’s story here.
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