Several months after making headlines for allegations of sexual assault involving members of the football team, St. Michael’s College School is bringing back its football program.

The all-boys Catholic private school announced in June that it would implement the recommendations of its independent review committee, which recommended reinstating the football program “only if it is coupled with effective measures to prevent or address hazing, in particular, and bullying, more generally.”

“Accordingly, after much discernment and collaboration, the school intends to reinstate the football program for the 2019/2020 academic year and has commenced the work associated with implementing the necessary measures to reinstate the program,” wrote St. Mike’s interim president Father Andrew Leung, who stepped into the role after then-school president Father Jefferson Thompson resigned in November.

Details about what these “necessary measures” will look like are expected to be revealed once the committee releases its final report, which is due this summer.

The committee, comprising members who were unaffiliated with the school, was formed in response to the allegations of sexual assault and has been tasked with reviewing the policies and the culture at the school that led to the controversy.

In November of last year, a graphic locker room video depicting the alleged sexual assault of a boy, was circulated on social media. Police subsequently charged seven boys in connection with three separate instances of sexual assault.

The school expelled at least eight students and cancelled its varsity football program for the remainder of the school year. It also cancelled its varsity basketball program, but reinstated it in January.

TY Tom Yun is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star's radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @thetomyun

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