Ex-high school coach awarded $2.5M in discrimination case Durango, Colorado Currently Fri 0% chance of precipitation 1% chance of precipitation 36% chance of precipitation 15% chance of precipitation 3% chance of precipitation By: The Associated Press Toggle font size COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) A jury has ruled that the Colorado High School Activities Association should pay a former assistant basketball coach $2.5 million in a race discrimination case. William Trey Harris III, who was hired in 2016 as a coach at Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, was falsely blamed for a transfer violation and later fired as a minority scapegoat, a lawsuit filed in federal court said. Jurors agreed, saying Harris should be awarded $200,000 in economic damages, $1.3 million in non-economic damages and $1 million in punitive damages, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported Thursday.